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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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Community chimes in on last week's photograph


February 16, 2021
The aerial picture published as the historic photo in the Feb. 9 edition of the Cape Gazette (capegazette.com/node/215273) generated considerable interest.  Because of the extent of the information, we decided to publish it again with comments from two readers.  Bob Kotowski, long involved with Lewes Historical Society, provided the first response.  The second response came from Earl Webb who originally provided the photo.  Here are their responses:
    “Concerning the aerial photo of piers sent by Earl Webb and published on  page 7 in the Feb. 9 Cape Gazette, I think I can help,” wrote Kotowski.
    “The large plant and pier in the foreground appears to be Otis Smith’s Fish Products Co. The other menhaden piers also likely were owned by Smith. As for the remaining piers, starting from the top of the photo: the Army Mine Pier (now Cape Henlopen fishing pier), remnants of the old Iron Pier, and at the bottom of the pic, the C ....

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Lewes mayors come together 3,600 miles apart


Commonality among English and American counterparts
John Lamb, left, mayor of Lewes, England, and local Lewes Mayor Ted Becker spent a half-hour discussing their respective towns during a recent interview. SOURCE: MIRADOR TELEVISION
Nick Roth
January 7, 2021
Two Lewes mayors came together from either side of the Atlantic Ocean for a recent chat about the similarities and differences of their respective towns.
Local Lewes Mayor Ted Becker and Mayor John Lamb of Lewes, England, joined co-hosts Keith Hayes and Melissa Winton for a half-hour discussion on Mirador Television. They covered a variety of topics, including town history, local customs and, inevitably, how each community is handling COVID-19. ....

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