Habitat moves home in 1993
The recent death of former President Jimmy Carter shined a light on the great work he did after his presidency, including building thousands of homes with Habitat for Humanity. The Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project is estimated to have helped about 5,000 families both inside and outside the United States through Habitat.
Locally, Sussex County Habitat for Humanity held a memorial service Jan. 9 at its ReStore on Route 9 near Lewes to honor the legacy of Carter, celebrating his transformative impact on the organization and affordable housing advocacy worldwide.
The Sussex County Habitat affiliate was founded in 1991. Since then, the organization and its volunteers have built or rehabbed and sold 189 homes.
This photograph from December 1993 must show one of the earliest projects Sussex Habitat undertook. It shows a North Shores home being transported to land between Milton and Georgetown. The crew from John Davidson moved the home in two pieces.
