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Beebe Medical Center was founded in 1916 by Dr. James Beebe and Dr. Richard C. Beebe and was the first private hospital in Delaware outside of Wilmington.In 1921, the hospital expanded and the Beebe School of Nursing was founded.
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. [2]
Fort Delaware Hospital - near Delaware City. Served as medical facility for Confederate POWs and Union troops; Closed at end of Civil War; Now part of Fort Delaware State Park; There was a hospital at Ft. Dupont, near Delaware City. The building still exists but has been closed up and unused for many years. Heald's Hygeian Home for the ...
De Vries Palisade: De Vries Palisade: February 23, 1972 : Pilottown Road (Front Street) Lewes: 34: Deep Creek Furnace Site: October 20, 1977 : Address restricted: Middleford: 35: Delaware Boundary Markers: Delaware Boundary Markers
Col. David Hall House is a historic home located at Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware. The main house dates to about 1780, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, three-bay, frame structure. A lower 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wing was added about 1805. The main house is sheathed in its original cypress shingles and the wing in cedar shakes.
The Lewes terminal of the Cape May–Lewes Ferry. Delaware Route 1 (DE 1) passes just outside city limits at Five Points where DE 1, U.S. Route 9 (US 9), DE 404, DE 23 and DE 1D (Plantation Road) intersect. There are three main arterial roads that connect Lewes to DE 1: New Road, Savannah Road (US 9 Business) and King's
Sussex County was the site of the first European settlement in Delaware, a Dutch trading post named Zwaanendael at the present site of Lewes. On June 3, 1631, Dutch captain David Pietersen de Vries landed along the shores of the Delaware to establish a whaling colony in the mid-Atlantic of the New World. The colony lasted only until 1632, when ...
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.