CAPE GAZETTE HISTORIC PHOTO ARCHIVES April 20, 2021
This photograph from 1925 shows the Cape Henlopen Lighthouse looking lonely and vulnerable on the edge of dunes near the point of Cape Henlopen. Within the next year, on April 13, 1926, its shallow foundations weakened by a spring storm, the lighthouse fell into the sea from where it had stood since 1769.
The British constructed the lighthouse to mark the entrance to Delaware Bay, just a few years before the United States’ war for independence went into high gear. As part of the hostilities, the British, reportedly, almost completely destroyed the 69-foot-tall structure in 1777.
By 1784, with the war ended, wardens for the lighthouse had rebuilt the structure and put it back into service. It continued as one of the East Coast’s most valuable navigational markers for another 140 years until dune erosion rendered the structure unsafe.
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City issues request for proposals to find streetscape project consultant
Rehoboth Beach has issued a request for proposals looking for a contractor to help lead the city through a streetscape project on Baltimore and Wilmington avenues. Shown here is Wilmington Avenue. CHRIS FLOOD PHOTOS
Chris Flood January 19, 2021
A streetscape project for Rehoboth Avenue was completed in 2006. The city’s 2010 comprehensive development plan recommends a similar sprucing-up of the city’s two other commercial streets. Shown here is Baltimore Avenue.
This Cape Gazette story from June 2006 celebrates the completion of the Rehoboth Avenue streetscape project.
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