NOVEMBER
13 1965
SUSSEX
COUNTY BY CONSTANCE BROWN
BROADKILL
CREEK
For
the last few years a lot of dredging has opened old water ways
that
time and mankind have filled with junk and silt.
One
of these waterways, the Broadkill, from Milton to the Delaware
Bay,
the
dredging has brought some interesting items out and into the
spotlight.
The
remains of an old Chesapeake Bay oyster schooner has been
brought
up on the banks for people to see. In 1915 this schooner went
to
pieces in the river an there are some today residents that
remember
her
stories. Two more sailing vessels have been found and set on
the
rivers
edge. Other items found are on display at the Hardware Store of
Lou
Darby on Union Street in Milton.
The
Broadkill, from Milton to the Delaware Bay is now 40 foot
wide
and
11 feet deep.
In
the center of town, Milton has had the “Hazzard Slip”
dredged to
make
a fresh water marina. During the dredging many large “white
cedar”
logs, underwater more that 100 years provide evidence of the
ship
building at Milton. The mayor, Graham Dill, a local waterman,
quotes
a book by Charles T. Conwell, another Milton waterman, saying
238
ships were built in Milton, owing to the fact there was a forest
of
the
proper lumber for ship building.
Then,
there are many stories from old timers , of the abundance of
oysters
taken from the Broadkill and Delaware Bay by the sailing vessels
of
the port in Milton.
This
abstract, September 11, 2018, by Harrison H., from Constance
Brown's
column in Saturday November 13 1965 Wilmington Morning
News
for Facebook's “Lewes To Ocean City” page and
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