Delaware Cape Region History in Photographs

Delaware Cape Region History in Photographs, published every Tuesday in the Cape Gazette, features historical photos from Delaware's Cape Region - particularly - and from throughout Sussex County and Delaware generally.

Readers are invited to submit photos of historic interest. They can be mailed to the Cape Gazette at PO Box 213, Lewes, DE 19958, or via email to newsroom@capegazette.com.

Summertime is beach time: in Lewes now and then

5 years ago
This picture postcard from the George and Irene Caley Collection was postmarked 1909 and was sent...

Picking Delaware peaches in the mid 20th century

5 years ago
This photograph from the Delaware Economic Development Office Collection shows a group of...

The latest in farm equipment, mid-20th century

5 years ago
If it’s the last part of July and it’s hotter than blazes, it must be State Fair time in Delaware...

A scene of Lewes Creek and downtown Lewes in 1906

5 years ago
This postcard, mailed in 1906, features a photograph taken from the Lewes Beach side of Lewes Creek...

An Amish wheat field west of Dover in 1985

5 years ago
The 2019 barley and wheat harvest in Sussex County and throughout the rest of Delaware is mostly...

A Repurposed Railroad Car in Rehoboth Beach in 1922

5 years ago
This picture postcard, postmarked 1922, shows a repurposed railroad car set up as a cottage on the...

A prominent destination in Lewes in 1907

5 years ago
This postcard from 1907 shows the Hotel Rodney at the corner of Front Street and what is now known...

Hospital gardens are important for healing

5 years ago
Maybe it has something to do with the Garden of Eden but we sure do like gardens and Delaware is a...

The early days of Cape Henlopen State Park

5 years ago
This photograph from the 1960s shows the earliest entrance to Cape Henlopen State Park, just after...

One photo, two things to worry about

5 years ago
Delaware’s General Assembly goes back into session this week for its final run leading up to its...

Picking strawberries on a Bridgeville farm

5 years ago
Memorial Day Weekend means honoring those dead who have served in our armed forces, the beginning...

Milton-Ellendale segment of Queen Anne’s Railroad...

5 years ago
In January 2019, Delmarva Central Railroad took over operation of the railroad spur line between...

Early manufactured housing in Delaware

5 years ago
This postcard from the early 1950s shows the Dover Air Force Base Henry Massey family outside of...

Rehoboth’s Hotel Bellhaven as it appeared in 1913

5 years ago
The Papajohn Family in Rehoboth Beach has proposed construction of a new four-story hotel at its...

Route 14 bridge over Lewes-Rehoboth Canal in 1970

5 years ago
Lloyd Teitsworth and Dee Andrews made thousands of aerial photographs in the spring of 1970 in an...

Artist Howard Schroeder and his family back in 1982

6 years ago
Famed Delaware artist Howard Schroeder and his wife, Marian, celebrated their 40th wedding...

The state of public education in Harbeson in 1926

6 years ago
All of the school construction underway in Cape Henlopen School District and roadwork in full tilt...

Season coming for relaxing in the shade

6 years ago
This postcard from the mid 1900s is a reminder of how long there has been camping - and people to...

Shad nets hanging for cleaning and drying in New Castle

6 years ago
This picture postcard from the early 1900s shows nets for the annual spring spawning season hanging...

Here’s a Seaford baseball scene from the early 1920s

6 years ago
The Major League Baseball season is about to begin. Players have been stretching their muscles and...

A painting of the Carpenters’ Shell House from the...

6 years ago
A recent Barefootin' column focused on the Carpenter family’s Shell House, built in the early 1920s...

One of the Green Book’s stops in Sussex County

6 years ago
The Green Book recently earned the Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year from the Academy of...

Cape’s state championship girls basketball team in 1973

6 years ago
Cape Gazette Sports Editor Emeritus Dave Frederick published this photo on March 11, 2011 when the...

A Dewey scene familiar to Alice Walsh in the mid 1900s

6 years ago
An explanation on the back of this postcard from the 1950s reports that the view is looking toward...

Rehoboth Airport from the air in the 1960s

6 years ago
A recent historic photograph in the Cape Gazette showed the Rehoboth Airport - in black and white...

Interior of Groome Methodist Protestant Church in 1945

6 years ago
Most people are aware of Groome United Methodist Church because of the land its congregation has...

Rehoboth Airport as it looked from the air in 1949

6 years ago
Dave Kenton, via his son Casey, passed along this aerial photo of the Rehoboth Airport in 1949...

Road builders, tree planters in the 1930s

6 years ago
Trail-building work underway in Delaware’s Cape Region brings forth memories of work done in the...

Rehoboth’s Silver Lake Bridge when it was fairly new

6 years ago
Delaware’s Department of Transportation recently completed repairs to Rehoboth Beach’s Silver Lake...

Kiwanis, Key Club refurbished Rehoboth nativity

6 years ago
The removal of the Rehoboth Beach nativity scene from the Bandstand property stirred a lot of...

Rehoboth Public School valued at $251,305 in 1941

6 years ago
For insurance purposes, the State of Delaware photographed and appraised the value of all state-...

Sending Christmas greetings home from Japan

6 years ago
After World War II ended in 1945, American armed forces occupied defeated Japan for a number of...

Notched-log corn cribs from the early 1900s

6 years ago
This 1955 photograph from the Ernest Collection of Country Store Photographs shows a pair of corn...

Rehoboth Beach vacationing in the 1940s

6 years ago
Jeanne Smith of Lewes found this photograph in some family files. It shows her mom mom and pop pop...

Thanksgiving a time to celebrate the harvest

6 years ago
This photograph from 1914 shows a steel-wheeled Moline tractor supplying leather-belt-driven power...

A Return Day float from the mid-20th century

6 years ago
This picture postcard from the 1950s shows that Return Day traditions haven’t changed much through...

Stirring Up Support For Prohibition In 1917

6 years ago
Pro-prohibition organizations distributed this postcard in Wilmington before the November election...

Beebe Hospital As It Had Evolved In Mid-20th Century

6 years ago
This postcard from the mid-20th century shows Beebe Hospital when its main entrance was in the Shaw...

The Schooners Of Milton In The Early 20th Century

6 years ago
This postcard was mailed from Milton in 1908. It shows wharves in the Broadkill River in downtown...

Graphic testimony to Dutch heritage in 1927

6 years ago
Kill in Dutch can be translated as river. So when the new drawbridge across the Broadkill River...

Lewes Yacht Club in its early days

6 years ago
Lewes Yacht Club, located at the end of Cedar Street in Lewes, fronts on Delaware Bay, Roosevelt...

Lewes Beach an auto destination in 1930

6 years ago
This photograph from September of 1930 shows that then, as now, Lewes Beach and its public parking...

The Circle in Georgetown from the air in 1970

6 years ago
This aerial photograph from March of 1970 shows downtown Georgetown and its Circle, and the streets...

Autumn hurricane in 1944 drove Thomas Tracy tanker...

6 years ago
This postcard mailed from Rehoboth Beach in the summer of 1945 shows the freighter Thomas Tracy...

Work in Lewes in 1915 meant fishing for menhaden

6 years ago
More in the spirit of the Labor Day holiday: In 1915 when this postcard was mailed, hundreds of...

The heart of Dewey Beach a half century ago

6 years ago
This aerial photograph from the 1950s shows the heart of Dewey Beach, from sea to bay, with its...

The Main Downtown Area Of Broadkill Beach In The...

6 years ago
The main road running parallel to the beach is paved now, and there are more beach cottages, but...

Ocean City Charter Fishing fleet in the mid-1900s

6 years ago
Many eyes were on the Ocean City, Md. annual white marlin fishing tournament last week - a cash-...

“Peaches ripen in the summertime, apples ripen in . ...

6 years ago
". . . the fall. If I can't have the one I love I don't want no one at all." This verse from a...

Beach scene in Rehoboth more than 100 years ago

6 years ago
This picture postcard was mailed in August of 1914 and shows swimmers enjoying the ocean at...

Cornstalk shocks on a Dover field in the early 1900s

6 years ago
Across Sussex County, corn in fields without irrigation was beginning to burn up in July. Some of...

Fort Miles Battery 519 in earliest days of Cape...

6 years ago
This photograph was posted recently on the Fort Miles Historical Association's website. It shows...

Recreation and religion in mid-20th century

6 years ago
This picture postcard from the George and Irene Caley Post Card Collection dates back to the mid...

Hotel at Rosedale Beach in the mid-1950s

6 years ago
From the 1900s to the 1970s, the pre-integration era of the United States, the hotel and resort...

Slaughter Beach waterfront in the early 20th century

6 years ago
This postcard from about 1905 shows waterfront houses built just back from the dunes and on the...

Oak Orchard bathing scene from early 1900s

6 years ago
Through the early to mid 1900s, Oak Orchard on Indian River was a popular summer resort complete...

Lewes industry in the mid 1930s

6 years ago
Everett Bryan was a pharmacist in Lewes in the first half of the 20th century who also had an...

Taking strawberries to market in Selbyville in 1925

6 years ago
We're at the peak of the strawberry season in Sussex County. The crop has provided a nice spring...

Rehoboth’s Silver Lake Bridge on a 1929 Postcard

6 years ago
This postcard showing the Silver Lake Bridge in Rehoboth Beach was mailed in 1929, so the bridge at...

Railroad crossings in Lewes in the 1930s

6 years ago
Since the decommissioning of the railroad line between Cool Spring and Lewes, the state has been...