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The Lewes Transit Center features a bus loop that buses pull into, to pick up and drop off passengers. Located south of the bus stop is a park and ride lot with 248 parking spaces along with an indoor passenger facility featuring seating, restrooms, a ticket sales office, and monitors displaying real-time bus information.
The Stevensville Train Depot as it appears today. Approval was given in 1894 by the Maryland Legislature to Queen Anne's Railroad Company to build a railroad connecting Queenstown with Lewes, Delaware. The line was extended 13 miles to Love Point in 1902, and the Stevensville Train Depot was constructed.
The Maryland and Delaware Coast Railroad (M&DCR) was a locally organized railroad created to preserve passenger rail on the West Denton to Lewes branch on April 16, 1924. [25] In 1931 their "gasoline car" was destroyed and they ended passenger rail; freight service continued, but they went bankrupt and were foreclosed on in 1932. [14]
Fisher House (White Meadow Farm) March 24, 1971 (#71000234) April 9, 1981: 120 King's Highway: Lewes: Now located on King's Highway in Zwaanendael Park in Lewes as the Lewes Chamber of Commerce Building.
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A traffic study on increasing congestion along east–west roads in Sussex County, including DE 404, was undertaken in 1986 in coordination with Maryland officials. [19] In 1988, plans were made for a consultant to design road improvements for an east–west corridor between Bridgeville and the Lewes area. [20]
Other notable buildings include St. Peter's Episcopal Church, the Ellis Marine Complex, Cannonball House, Governor Ebe W. Tunnell House, Walsh Building, Zwaanendael Museum (1932), Cornelius Burton House, Lewes Historical Society enclave, and the De Wolf Houses. The contributing sites include the site of an 18th-century fort and the 1812 Park.
The Denton, Maryland to Lewes section was purchased by the Maryland & Delaware Coast Railway, but with the decline of the locomotive as vehicle traffic increased, the line was again scheduled to be abandoned in 1931. The state of Delaware eventually purchased the portion of the line from Ellendale to Milton to maintain a freight link, making ...