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Lewes was the site of the first European settlement in Delaware, a whaling and trading post that Dutch settlers founded on June 3, 1631, and named Zwaanendael (Swan Valley). [7] The colony had a short existence, as a local tribe of Lenape Indians killed all 32 settlers in 1632. The area remained rather neglected by the Dutch until, under the ...
Lewes Historic District. / 38.77472°N 75.14278°W / 38.77472; -75.14278. Lewes Historic District is a national historic district located at Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware. The district includes 122 contributing buildings and 6 contributing sites encompassing most of the 17th-century town of Lewes, together with part of Pilot Town.
The Lewes Coast Guard Station now functions as the Delaware River pilot's station. The station is a 2.5-story balloon-framed building, built in 1938 in Colonial Revival style. The principal facade faces the harbor with an enclosed porch supported by paired Tuscan columns. Shingle siding covers the station.
9 miles southwest of Lewes on Delaware Route 5 38°41′08″N 75°13′09″W / 38.685556°N 75.219167°W / 38.685556; -75.219167 ( St. George's Chapel Lewes
76000585 [ 1] Added to NRHP. April 26, 1976. Col. David Hall House is a historic home located at Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware. The main house dates to about 1780, and is a -story, three-bay, frame structure. A lower -story wing was added about 1805. The main house is sheathed in its original cypress shingles and the wing in cedar shakes.
Zwaanendael Colony. Zwaanendael or Swaanendael / ˈzwɑːnəndɛl / was a short-lived Dutch colonial settlement in Delaware. It was built in 1631. The name is archaic Dutch for "swan valley." The site of the settlement later became the town of Lewes, Delaware.
November 20, 1970; April 26, 1978 (Boundary Increase) Maull House, also known as the Thomas Maull House, is a historic home located at Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware. It dates to about 1730, and is a 1⁄2 -story, with attic, cypress sheathed frame dwelling with a gambrel roof. It measures 30 feet by 16 feet. A rear wing was added about 1890.
Lewes, Delaware: 1665 Residence Likely the oldest house in Delaware Town Point: Dover, Delaware: 1677 Residence Lombardy Hall: Wilmington, Delaware: 1683 (earliest part) Residence National Historic Landmark (NHL), home to Gunning Bedford Jr., a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and a signer of the U.S. Constitution. Belmont Hall: Smyrna ...