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Looking north from Herring Point. Cape Henlopen State Park is a 5,193 acre (21 km 2) Delaware state park on Cape Henlopen. William Penn made the beaches of Cape Henlopen one of the first public lands established in what has become the United States in 1682 with the declaration that Cape Henlopen would be for "the usage of the citizens of Lewes and Sussex County."
Cape Henlopen State Park is a Delaware state park on 5,193 acres (2,102 ha) on Cape Henlopen in Sussex County, Delaware, in the United States. William Penn made the beaches of Cape Henlopen one of the first public lands established in what has become the United States in 1682 with the declaration that Cape Henlopen would be for "the usage of the citizens of Lewes and Sussex County."
Henlopen Acres is a municipality north of Rehoboth Beach in Sussex County, Delaware, United States, and is the third smallest incorporated town in Delaware. According to 2010 census figures, the population of the town is 122, a 12.2% decrease from the 2000 census. [ 3 ]
The Cape Henlopen Region, or the Cape Region, is a region in Sussex County, in southern Delaware, on the Delmarva Peninsula. The region is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. The region takes its name from Cape Henlopen, as does the Cape Henlopen School District and Cape Henlopen State Park.
In his second season, former NFL player and Neshaminy grad Mike Frederick has coached Cape Henlopen into its first state championship game since 1984. Gentle giant: Neshaminy grad Mike Frederick ...
Henlopen may refer to: Cape Henlopen , Delaware, the southern cape of the Delaware Bay along the Atlantic coast of the United States USS Henlopen (SP-385) , a United States Navy minesweeper and tug in commission from January to March 1918
Cape Henlopen Lighthouse was constructed on the north side of the Great Dune to obtain additional height. Mariners from Philadelphia lobbied for the construction of a lighthouse, and many ships had fallen victim to the dark waters around the cape, necessitating construction of such a lighhouse. The land was donated by Thomas and William Penn.
Various spellings of henlopen mean "entering in" or "approaching," although one authority insists it means "runaway cape." [ 1 ] The confusion of the placement of Cape Henlopen was the crux of a long-standing dispute between the Penns (Delaware) and the Calverts (Maryland), the latter claiming the Lewes' cape should have been the start of the ...
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