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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPFM_david-hall-house_Lewes-DE.html
This house was the home of Colonel David Hall(1752-1817), patriot of the Revolution andGovernor of Delaware. Devoted to the strugglefor American Independence, he enlisted inthe Continental Army in 1776 and was commissioned as a Captain in the Dela…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP0A_devries-monument_Lewes-DE.html
Erected By The State of DelawareTo Commemorate The Settlement On This Spot, Of The First Dutch Colony, Under De Vries, A.D. 1631.
Here was the craddle of a state."That Delaware exists as a separateCommonwealth is due to this colony !"???????…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP06_the-zwaanendael-club_Lewes-DE.html
This building was constructed in 1898 by the Sussex Trust Title and Safe Deposit Company. It was opened in October of that year, and continued to serve as the Lewes branch of the bank until being replaced by a new structure on Second Street in 191…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOYY_old-court-house_Lewes-DE.html
In 1680, Governor Andros authorizedthe erection of a court house of logsto cost 5000 pounds of tobacco.Near this wall was the second buildingused from 1740 to 1791, when the countyseat was moved to Georgetown.The church rented building as a tavern…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOSR_dodds-corner_Lewes-DE.html
Serving Lewes with a general store and its harbor as ship chandlers, the Dodd family occupied this site from the latter part of the 18th Century until it was acquired in 1929 by Benjamin Ableman of Georgetown from one Joseph Frank Dodd, the last r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMONE_broadkiln-hundred_Lewes-DE.html
Originally known as Broadkill Hundred, after creek of that name, kill being Dutch work for creek. Name changed by General Assembly 1833 when Georgetown Hundred was set off. In 1835 Act was repealed, and Broadkiln Hundred embraced same territory as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK9X_the-cannonball-house_Lewes-DE.html
The War of 1812 had a major impact on the town of Lewes and surrounding area. The naval blockade that was initiated by the British in March of 1813 lasted for most of the next two years. With maritime commerce limited, the local economy suffered. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCS0_menhaden-fishing-industry_Lewes-DE.html
The Atlantic Menhaden is a small herring-like fish found in the coastal waters of the Eastern United States. Used by Native Americans to fertilize crops, these oily fish were also used by European settlers to produce fuel for lamps. In the mid-19t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCRJ_lewes_Lewes-DE.html
Here lived Ryves Holt, colonial chief justice; and four governors, David Hall, who commanded a Delaware regiment in the Revolution, Daniel Rodney and Caleb Rodney, sons of John Rodney, and Ebe W. Tunnell; also Colonel Henry Fisher, Revolutionary p…
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The Dutch in 1673 established a court in Hoorn Kil for the inhabitants "on the east and west sides of Cape Henlopen unto Bomties (Bombay) Hook." Governor Andros of New York in 1676 established an English court at Whorekill, the jurisdiction of whi…