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Delaware Cape Region History in Photographs
Lewes Beach in 1970
1 year ago
Lewes Beach is quite a bit different today than it was in this 1970 photograph. Spanning from Iowa...
Rehoboth’s minor league baseball team
1 year ago
Rehoboth Beach had a low-level minor league baseball team for three years in the late 1940s,...
Dallin’s images offer peek into early 20th century
1 year ago
The aerial photographs of pilot J. Victor Dallin have been featured in the pages of the Cape...
German U-boat surrenders in Delaware Bay
1 year ago
The eyes of the country were on Fort Miles in May 1945 when a German U-boat carrying 61 officers...
Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk in the 1930s
1 year ago
The sesquicentennial of Rehoboth Beach’s origins was May 1, the day in 1873 that a lot selection...
Camp bugler calls the troops of Fort Miles
1 year ago
That’s quite a bugle. This undated image shows the camp bugler at Fort Miles during World War II...
Milton Theatre in June 1956
1 year ago
The Milton Theatre unveiled its brand-new balcony April 11 after more than a year of construction...
Cape Henlopen Lighthouse fell 97 years ago
1 year ago
On April 13, 1926, the Cape Henlopen Lighthouse fell into the Atlantic Ocean. Built in 1765, it was...
Rehoboth Beach’s longtime Easter tradition
1 year ago
In what looks like a scene from the Polar Bear Plunge, this photograph from the 1950s shows a...
A view of downtown Milton in 1957
1 year ago
While the businesses have changed, the look of Union Street in downtown hasn’t changed much since...
Future Homemakers of America at Lewes High in 1963
1 year ago
Things have changed a lot in the last 60 years. At Lewes High School in 1963, a group of young...
Cape Henlopen school board in 1972
1 year ago
There will be an election this year for the Cape Henlopen School District Board of Education. We...
Lewes High School girls’ basketball 1935-36
1 year ago
The Cape Henlopen High School girls’ basketball team is fighting for a state championship, after...
The long history of the Cannonball House
1 year ago
The historic Cannonball House in Lewes has been in the news recently after it was discovered a...
Sussex headquarters was once a post office
1 year ago
Before becoming the home of the Sussex County government, the building at 2 The Circle in...
Lloyd’s Market a staple of Lewes since 1971
1 year ago
There are few things synonymous with Lewes, but Lloyd’s Market is certainly one of them. Lloyd and...
Blue Diamond railroad lasts only six months
1 year ago
A Cape Gazette subscriber recently shared this historical item showing a train schedule effective...
Rehoboth’s lighthouse replica has long history
1 year ago
Millions of people have been welcomed to Rehoboth Beach by the Cape Henlopen Lighthouse replica...
Milton Masonic lodge dates back to 19th century
1 year ago
If someone from the late 1800s was transported to Milton in 2023, they might see a familiar...
Lewes Union School once stood on Savannah Road
1 year ago
If still in existence today, the Lewes Union School would stand on Savannah Road about where Beebe...
Houston-White Co. thrived in Millsboro
1 year ago
Houston-White Co. was a mill and basket company founded in the late 19th century that thrived in...
Unique look at Second Street in the 1940s
1 year ago
Thousands of people have wandered through the St. Peter’s Episcopal Church cemetery on Second...
Broadkill Beach in the 1970s
1 year ago
Broadkill Beach is an unincorporated beach community north of Lewes and east of Milton. For many,...
Lewes Polar Bears plunge into new millennium
1 year ago
As is tradition, a group of polar bears will jump into the ocean Jan. 1 at Cape Henlopen State Park...
Rehoboth Avenue bridge over the canal 60 years ago
1 year ago
The front page story of the Dec. 23 edition focused on the dissolution of the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal...
Celebrating Christmas in Rehoboth Beach
1 year ago
A Christmas tree at The Bandstand in Rehoboth Beach is a holiday tradition. This photograph appears...
Spreading Christmas cheer to Delaware’s troops
1 year ago
The entire country participated in the war effort during World War II, including providing...
Blue Moon Restaurant in Lewes in 1941
1 year ago
Before the Blue Moon on Baltimore Avenue in Rehoboth Beach, there was the Blue Moon Restaurant on...
Getting groceries at the Rehoboth A&P in 1960
1 year ago
Many longtime Cape Region locals will remember the A&P grocery store on the Forgotten Mile...
Camp Henlopen before establishment of Fort Miles
1 year ago
A few years before Fort Miles was established at today’s Cape Henlopen State Park, the U.S...
A very different Five Points
1 year ago
The front page of our Nov. 18 edition featured a story about the impending demolition of the Bests...
Aerial look at Lewes in 1939
1 year ago
Lewes is a town steeped in history, and some of that history is documented in this 1939 aerial...
Return Day in 1960
1 year ago
There have been two stories about Return Day in recent editions of the Cape Gazette – one in the...
Rehoboth train on the Avenue in 1925
1 year ago
The Rehoboth Beach Museum recently held a two-part lecture called, “Ferries, Trains, and...
Hotel Rodney hasn’t changed much in 96 years
1 year ago
If you stood on Second Street in Lewes across from St. Peter’s Episcopal Church today and looked at...
Blood clinic at Fort Miles gym
1 year ago
A few weeks ago, we shared a photograph taken before a 1940s boxing match at the Fort Miles gym. In...
Lewes School in the 1920s
1 year ago
Students moved into Lewes Elementary School in April, paving the way for Richard A. Shields...
Cape Henlopen State Park bathhouse under construction
1 year ago
Cape Henlopen State Park has been in the news recently, as state officials consider allowing a...
Boxing at Fort Miles in the 1940s
1 year ago
Athletic activities relieved stress and kept the men of Fort Miles in shape. In addition to boxing...
Silver Lake in Rehoboth, before fountains
1 year ago
Silver Lake in Rehoboth Beach has been mentioned a few articles in the Cape Gazette recently. The...
Thomas Tracy wrecks in Rehoboth Sept. 14, 1944
1 year ago
The 250-foot freighter Thomas Tracy was blown ashore at Brooklyn Avenue in Rehoboth Beach Sept. 14...
‘Then came Labor Day’
1 year ago
The four-word phrase on this postcard from the Delaware Public Archives’ Caley Postcard Collection...
Milton celebrates sesquicentennial in August 1957
1 year ago
The Town of Milton celebrated its sesquicentennial in August of 1957. Shown in this photograph are...
Du Pont connection to Henlopen Acres home
1 year ago
A few weeks ago, we featured an aerial photograph of Henlopen Acres in 1936. This home, commonly...
Camping thrived at Key Box Road in the 1950s
1 year ago
The popularity of camping at Key Box Road south of Dewey Beach exploded in the 1950s. According to...
The Great Milton Fire of 1909
1 year ago
Disaster struck in Milton the morning of Aug. 13, 1909. A fire was discovered about 1 a.m. by the...
The birth of Henlopen Acres in 1930
1 year ago
This photograph made around 1930 hangs inside Henlopen Acres Town Hall. It shows a group of people...
Delaware State Fair a century ago
1 year ago
The Delaware State Fair as we know it today was founded in 1919 as the Kent and Sussex County Fair...
Stokely Brothers & Company cannery in 1931
1 year ago
The Stokely Brothers & Company purchased a cannery along the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal just south of...
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...
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