MODERNIZING HISTORIC
LEWES STREET NAMES
1933 CONTROVERSY
A controversy arose when
several street names were changed last year as new street
signs were installed.
There was a “passive attitude” on the part of the town
fathers.
The town commissioners made
no decision to change the names, they just 'came about'
by popular opinion.
Park Avenue was marked in
place of Shipcarpenter Street, King Street became Kings
Highway and Knitting
Street became Mulberry Street.
Judge Richard S. Rodney, an
ardent supporter of historic Lewes, deplored the changes
in colonial street names
and the destruction of 'Old Dutch” type homes to make way
for modern construction
and questioned why their presence would impede the towns
growth.
A campaign this fall
will take votes from both factions and decide whether or not
Historic Lewes will retain
it's aura of antiquity.
Abstract : December 28,
2017 by Harrison H. from Wilmington News Journal
Tuesday, September 19,
1933.
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