Civilian Conservation Corps workers in their flooded 1930s Delaware camp

Coastal flooding and global warming continue to be a topic of local and world-wide discussion. This photograph from the late 1930s shows a group of Civilian Conservation Corps workers associated with the Wyoming, Delaware camp, in a flooded area of their camp surrounded by Delaware’s low-lying marshes.

There were eight CCC camps in Delaware, including one in Lewes, with their activities largely focused on digging and maintaining drainage ditches in the marshes for mosquito control.

Delaware has often been called a state with three counties at low tide, and two at high tide. This photograph illustrates why that old saying carries a fair amount of truth.