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Delaware Cape Region History in Photographs
Rehoboth Beach Patrol in 1950
2 years ago
Although technically it’s the 101st anniversary of Rehoboth Beach Patrol this summer, the...
Aerial look at Rehoboth in 1932
2 years ago
Now that we’ve reached the peak tourist season in the Cape Region, let’s take a look at Rehoboth...
Doo-Dah Parade is a Lewes tradition
2 years ago
The Doo-Dah Parade has been a Lewes tradition for more than 50 years. Although it’s never been an...
Lewes pie-eating contest in 1950
2 years ago
A pie-eating contest has been part of Lewes’ Fourth of July tradition for decades. This 1950...
Rehoboth’s Bright House Hotel in the late 19th century
2 years ago
Cape Gazette reporter Chris Flood wrote an article in the Friday, June 17 edition about Rehoboth...
HMS DeBraak was found in Lewes 37 years ago
2 years ago
In 1985, salvagers used emerging sidescan sonar technology to detect the location of the sunken HMS...
Original MV Cape Henlopen participated in D-Day
2 years ago
The Cape May-Lewes Ferry has transported more than 45 million passengers across the Delaware Bay...
Drive-on beaches are a Delaware tradition
2 years ago
Now that the unofficial start of summer has arrived, the drive-on beaches at Delaware state parks...
Beach day at Cape Henlopen State Park
2 years ago
If this past weekend’s weather is any indication, summer temperatures have finally arrived in the...
Fort Miles soldiers check the weather
2 years ago
The Cape Region has had wild weather from winter through the spring. From one week to another,...
Mayor Otis Smith celebrates Lewes’ 325th anniversary
2 years ago
For the first time in many years, Lewes will have a mayoral election Saturday, May 14. Over the...
Sussex County Courthouse in 1924
2 years ago
The Sussex County Courthouse is one of Georgetown’s iconic historic structures. This photograph...
Lewes’ Fountain of Youth
2 years ago
If you’re searching for the Fountain of Youth, look no further than Lewes. It isn’t exactly a...
Rehoboth Beach Country Club’s original nine-hole layout
2 years ago
With temperatures consistently breaking 60 degrees, golf courses throughout the Cape Region are...
Cape Henlopen Lighthouse fell into the sea 96 years ago
2 years ago
On April 13, 1926, the Cape Henlopen Lighthouse fell into the Atlantic Ocean. Built in 1765, it was...
Lewes’ 1812 Park commemorates British bombardment
2 years ago
Lewes’ 1812 Park commemorates the defense of the First Town in the First State during an 1813...
Baseball season is upon us
2 years ago
High school baseball season kicked off last week, with Major League Baseball slated for a slightly...
Seeing a film at The Avenue movie theater in Rehoboth
2 years ago
Long before the Movies at Midway opened on Route 1, Rehoboth Beach had its very own single-screen...
A look at Milton’s inaugural St. Patrick’s Day parade
2 years ago
This week we’re traveling back to the spring of 2008. On March 16 of that year, the first St...
Stuart Kingston damaged in Storm of ’62
2 years ago
We here at the Cape Gazette try to connect our weekly historic photograph with something in the...
Beebe Healthcare’s long history in Sussex County
2 years ago
It was announced March 1 that Beebe Healthcare will be opening the R. Randall Rollins Center for...
Rehoboth Colored School in 1923
2 years ago
Delaware schools were segregated in 1923 when this “colored school” was built on the state highway...
Long before 2 Dips, there was the Lewes Beach Garage
2 years ago
The future of Lewes Beach’s beloved 2 Dips ice cream shop is uncertain after a local development...
Milton looks familiar approximately 75 years ago
2 years ago
Major growth is knocking on the door in Milton, with town officials contemplating the annexation of...
Recent snow doesn’t compare to Blizzard of 1888
2 years ago
A Jan. 29 snowstorm dumped a foot of snow on much of the Cape Region, but it doesn’t compare to the...
A different-looking Georgetown 25 years ago
2 years ago
There has been a lot of talk recently about deforestation as part of the continued development boom...
Wilson’s Pier in Dewey Beach in 1954
2 years ago
Just last week, we learned that the McKinney family has sold Pier Point Marina in Dewey Beach to an...
During Wartime, Creative Newspaper Deliveries
2 years ago
With announcement of the recent sale of the Cape Gazette, we decided to check out newspaper history...
DelDOT Snow Plows Have Come In All Shapes, Sizes
2 years ago
Delaware’s Department of Transportation has used a wide variety of snow plows through the years to...
Making Charcoal in Woods of Sussex near Millsboro
2 years ago
During the late 1800s and early 1900s, scenes like this one from November 1935 near Millsboro were...
Ice skating on a pond near Wyoming in 1909
2 years ago
Tuesday, Dec. 21 this year marks the winter solstice - with the year’s fewest hours of daylight and...
Santa’s special visit to Dover in 1941
2 years ago
Dover Air Force Base has been in the center of many important international events through its 80...
Boardwalk in early 1940s, before Dolle’s sign
2 years ago
With the pending removal of the iconic Dolle’s saltwater taffy sign from atop the building at the...
Flooding has long been transportation hazard
2 years ago
Delaware, it’s said, is a state with three counties at low tide and two counties at high. When...
Oysters long a popular food source, not just at...
2 years ago
This photograph from the 1950s shows men aboard an oystering vessel out of Leipsic planting seed...
Fisher-Martin House prior to its move to Lewes
2 years ago
Thomas Fisher built this Dutch Colonial-style home on 500-acre White Meadow Farm in the 1730s. It...
Rehoboth Bay and sparsely populated Dewey Beach in...
2 years ago
This picture postcard shows the head of Rehoboth Bay, in its northeastern corner, and the sandy...
A bird’s-eye view of Milton in March of 1970
2 years ago
This aerial photograph of Milton, looking from the southwest, shows the town as it appeared in...
Rehoboth Beach’s street layout as of 1950
2 years ago
Rehoboth Beach’s streets fan out left and right from where Rehoboth Avenue crosses Lewes-Rehoboth...
Rehoboth Beach’s Sisters Cottage In The Early 20th...
2 years ago
This picture postcard from Rehoboth Beach was mailed in 1908. It shows priests and nuns in front of...
Delaware-built rolling post offices helped deliver...
2 years ago
This United States Railway Post Office car was one of dozens built by the Jackson and Sharp Company...
Fall has long been apple-picking time in Delaware
2 years ago
But not in this photograph from July 22, 1925, showing wagons loaded with freshly picked apples...
Hauling pilings the old-fashioned way in 1907
3 years ago
This photo, which graces a postcard mailed in 1907, shows a team of oxen and mules driven by their...
A Sussex County public school classroom in 1926
3 years ago
With schools reopening in Sussex County, and new schools under construction in many different...
A soldier’s life isn’t all battle and glamour
3 years ago
This photograph from around 1944 shows U.S. Army soldiers, stationed at Fort Miles in Lewes,...
Delmar was one of the stops for the Delmarva Express
3 years ago
Pennsylvania Railroad invested heavily in passenger service during the first half of the 20th...
State-of-the-art food packaging in the early 1900s
3 years ago
This 1920s photograph from Waller Studios in western Sussex County’s Laurel shows workers at the...
Oak Orchard boardwalk scene from around 1915
3 years ago
Oak Orchard, tucked between Indian River Bay to the south and Emily Gut to the east, drew...
Horseshoe crabs at Bowers Beach for fertilizer
3 years ago
One of the great survivors of Planet Earth, horseshoe crabs have been roaming the sea floor for...
An early 20th century crossing of Broadkill River
3 years ago
Judging by the automobiles, this photo of the bridge over Broadkill River dates back to the 1930s...
Surfers at Indian River Inlet in the mid-1950s
3 years ago
This photograph from the middle of the 20th century gives a sense of the surfing scene at Indian...
Canning tomatoes in Seaford in early 1900s
3 years ago
Emanuel Greenabaum and brothers built a tomato and pea canning operation in Seaford in the late...
Resort restaurants long a part of local economy
3 years ago
Restaurants have long been an important part of the Delaware resort economy, and they have marketed...
Moonlight sailing on Rehoboth Bay in 1939
3 years ago
This romanticized illustration of a full moon sail on Rehoboth Bay graced a postcard that was...
One of Delaware’s earliest public transportation buses
3 years ago
Public buses are an increasingly important mode of transportation in Sussex County as our roads...
Threshing wheat when it took far more man and animal...
3 years ago
Wheat harvesting is in full swing across Delmarva. This photograph from the early 1930s shows a...
Hotel Carlton building on Rehoboth Avenue
3 years ago
This picture postcard from the 1920s shows the familiar red brick structure in the ocean block of...
Rehoboth’s Boardwalk was as popular in 1915 as it is...
3 years ago
The Boardwalk in Rehoboth Beach is usually capitalized because many properties fronting the...
Rehoboth Beach when its streets and beaches were...
3 years ago
This picture postcard from before 1907 shows the first block of Rehoboth’s Baltimore Avenue when...
Modern highway construction in Ellendale in 1918
3 years ago
Industrialist and philanthropist T. Coleman duPont financed construction of Rt. 113 in Sussex...
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