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Fenwick Island
Lighthouse: (302 539-4115) -- 146th St. and Lighthouse Lane,
just north of the MD border -- built in 1858 at a cost of $23,748.96
--
mini-museum, salt pot and shop -- see
picture from University of Delaware Library --
www.beach-net.com/lighthousefi.html.
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Bethany Beach
Historical Museum: (302 539-8011) -- in the Bethany town hall --
collection of rare pictures which portray the history of the area
since 1901 -- Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and
Sundays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Bethany Beach
History: founded in 1901, as "a
haven of rest for quiet people," presenting a "safe and rational way
of spending the heated term" -- still restful even after they ended
the bans on Sunday swimming, candy and soda --
History
of Bethany Beach.
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Bethany Beach Loop Canal: historic marker at Pennsylvania Ave. and 1st St, Bethany -- completed July 8, 1910 -- early vacationers
arrived in Rehoboth by railroad, then to boat, and finally in a two-horse bus
drawn
through deep sand -- a shallow loop waterway was dredged to improve
travel --
info.
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The
Bethany Totem Pole: "Chief Little Owl" at the corner of Garfield
Parkway and Route 1 -- carved from a red cedar log from Alaska --
expected to last from 50 to 100 years -- named in honor of a Chief
of the Nanticoke Indians, its purpose is to promote unity among all
peoples.
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Birthplace of the Commercial Broiler Industry: historic marker
in Ocean View Park, off of Central Ave. in Ocean View, marks the
birthplace of the commercial broiler industry -- in 1923, Cecile
Long Steele started a flock of 500 chicks, and by 1989
Sussex County leads the nation in broiler production --
info.
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DiscoverSea Shipwreck Museum: (302 539-9366) -- 708 Ocean
Highway, Fenwick Island -- ever-changing collection of shipwreck and recovered artifacts -- one of the largest in
the Mid-Atlantic with about 10,000 artifacts -- find out which local
beaches are best to uncover coins from shipwrecks! --
www.discoversea.com.
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Transpeninsular Marker: located on the
south side of the Fenwick Lighthouse -- erected April 26, 1751,
marks the eastern end of the east-west boundary between Pennsylvania’s “Three
Lower Counties” (now Delaware) and the Colony of Maryland -- stone
bears the coat of arms of the Calverts (south) and the Penns (north)
--
info.
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Indian River Life-Saving Station Museum: (302 227-0478) -- Route
1 North, between Indian River Inlet and Dewey Beach -- built in
1876, the Life Saving Station housed "surfmen" who helped
rescue ships from nearby dangerous shoals -- on National
Register of Historic Places --
info. Also one at the southern end of Ocean City --
www.ocmuseum.org.
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Lewes 375 Year Celebration: (302 645-8073) -- in 2006, the first
town in the first state celebrates 375 years of history -- ransacked
by pirates, bombarded by the British, and hounded by German U-boats
-- numerous events -- Dogfish Head is even brewing "Zwaanend'ale"
beer! --
375.historiclewes.org.
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Lewes Historical Society: (302 645-7670) -- 110 Shipcarpenter
St., Lewes -- museums, events, fairs, walking tours, and much more --
www.historiclewes.org.
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deVries Monument and Fort Site: Pilottown Road, Lewes -- marks
the site where, in 1631 28 Dutch settlers established the whaling
colony of Zwaanendael and erected a fort -- the following spring,
Indians burned the stockade and massacred the settlers -- in 1964
members of the Sussex Society of Archaeology and History found the
postmold patterns of the South bastion as sketched by deVries.
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Zwaanendael Museum: (302 645-1148) -- Savannah Road and
Kings Highway in Lewes -- Lewes-area maritime, military, and social
history from the founding of Delaware's first European settlement in
1631 (Swanendael) to the
British bombardment of Lewes in the War of 1812 --
history.delaware.gov/museums/zm/zm_main.shtml.
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Overfalls Maritime Museum: (302 645-7377) on Front St., in Lewes
-- restored by volunteers, the Lightship "Overfalls" was the last
"floating lighthouse" built by the US Lighthouse Service in 1938,
and is one of only 17 remaining out of a total of 179 built from
1820 to 1952 --
info -- www.overfalls.org.
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