Rehoboth’s Shaw Park before it was Grove Park

Throughout much of the 1900s, Rehoboth’s Grove Park, just north of Rehoboth Avenue and adjacent to the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal, was known as Shaw Park. 

At one time the area served as a camp meeting ground for the Methodist Church and then evolved into The Shaw Park Tourist Camp as seen in this picture postcard. Eventually, when leases expired for the many small camping trailers and small residential units, Rehoboth Beach opted not to renew those leases. 

Instead, the units cleared out and the tall oak trees began to shade one of the city’s favorite parks, as they still do today.