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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 ...
September 19, 1977. 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 district is primarily residential with resources ranging from ...
72000299 [1] Added to NRHP. February 23, 1972. De Vries Palisade, also known as DeVries Palisade of 1631, is an archaeological site located at Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware. It is the site of the Zwaanendael Colony, the first permanent European presence on the Delaware Bay in 1631, settled by a group of settlers under David Pietersz. de Vries.
Pages in category "Lewes, Delaware". The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. Lewes, Delaware.
38°34′38″N 75°37′55″W / 38.577222°N 75.631944°W / 38.577222; -75.631944 (Bethel Historic District) Bethel. 11. Blackwater Presbyterian Church. Blackwater Presbyterian Church. July 9, 1976. (#76000583) West of Clarksville on Delaware Route 54.
March 27, 1989 [1] The National Harbor of Refuge and Delaware Breakwater Historic District encompasses a series of seacoast breakwaters behind Cape Henlopen, Delaware, built between 1828 and 1898 to establish a shipping haven on a coastline that lacked safe harbors. The Harbor of Refuge is at the mouth of the Delaware Bay estuary where it opens ...
William Russell House, also known as the Russell Farmhouse, is a historic home located at Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware.It was built in 1803, and is two-story, three-bay, double-pile, side-hall, frame house.
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