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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 ...
The coastline claimed by New Netherland and Swanendael in the south. 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.
The place-name "Lewes" is first attested in an Anglo-Saxon charter circa 961 AD, where it appears as Læwe.It appears as Lewes in the Domesday Book of 1086. [7] The addition of the <-s> suffix seems to have been part of a broader trend of Anglo-Norman scribes pluralising Anglo-Saxon place-names (a famous example being their rendering of Lunden as Londres, hence the modern French name for London).
Website. www.sussexcountyde.gov. Sussex County is a county in the southern part of the U.S. state of Delaware, on the Delmarva Peninsula. As of the 2020 census, the population was 237,378, making it the state's second most populated county only behind New Castle and ahead of Kent. [1] The county seat is Georgetown.
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.
Cape Henlopen. Coordinates: 38.771484°N 75.095501°W. Cape Henlopen from space, October 1994. Cape Henlopen is the southern cape of the Delaware Bay along the Atlantic coast of the United States. It lies in the state of Delaware, near the town of Lewes, where the Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean. Off the coast on the bay side are two ...
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.
Delaware (/ ˈ d ɛ l ə w ɛər / ⓘ DEL-ə-wair) [11] is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern region of the United States. [12] It borders Maryland to its south and west, Pennsylvania to its north, New Jersey to its northeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to its east.