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Storm of 1831: When nor'easter turned southern Delaware into frozen tundra

The 1831 nor'easter has been mostly forgotten, but it rivals the worst storm in Delaware coastal history. Here's the tale of its devastation. ....

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Cato and Peter Lewis: the Black shipbuilders of Lewes

An historical marker in Lewes to commemorates the original St. George AME Church building, the cemetery, and Peter Lewis, a free Black shipbuilder. ....

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One hundred years ago on the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal

PHOTO COURTESY OF HAZEL BRITTINGHAM
May 4, 2021
Bill Heronemus sent along this photo, looking toward the northwest, of the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal in downtown Lewes in 1921. Hazel Brittingham supplied it to Bill who works with old photographs to restore and enhance them.
This shows how rough and raw Lewes was a century ago. The Army Corps of Engineers excavated sections of marsh between Lewes Creek on the northwest end of the canal and Rehoboth Creek on the southeast end, and built formal inlets to connect Delaware Bay and Rehoboth Bay for commercial transportation primarily of farm crops.
The canal project started in 1913 and first opened to boating traffic in 1916. ....

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