MOSQUITO CONTROL MARKER
BROADKILL NECK
1935
The second anniversary of
the inception of mosquito control work in Delaware by the Civilian
Conservation Corps is to be
commemorated Thursday, December 5, 1935 with the erection of a sod
monument along the east
side of the Broadkill Beach Road, overlooking the marshes where
ditching
was commenced, on December
5 1933.
The monument will take the
shape of a concentrically spiraled cone, built with patches of sod
from various parts of Kent
and Sussex marshes which were ditched by the four CCC mosquito
control
companies with each
company member placing a sod piece in position on the commemorative
pile.
The total strength of the
four companies is to be present, each member to bring a sod piece.
Lewes and slaughter Beach
camps with a strength of 412 will bring 824 sods. Magnolia and
Leipsic
camps, active a shorter
time, will being 394 sods between them.
A sturdy cedar pole is to
be erected on the tract of land contributed by Mrs. George Hall as a
permanent location. It is
expected that this sod monument will be twelve or more feet in
diameter and
at least eight feet high .
Each anniversary year it is planned that similar amounts of sods will
be added.
There is to be a sign
affixed which will dedicate the monument to the CCC workers who made
the
mosquito control a success,
also a cornerstone copper box of records built into the monument.
The First Engineer Band of
Fort duPont will furnish the music for the occasion.
Abstract Wilmington New
Journal , December 4 1935:
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