Wednesday, March 27, 2019

CAPE HELOPEN HISTORY LEWES FORT 1915



CAPE HENLOPEN HISTORY



The Wilmington News Journal, Saturday , September 11, 1915, reports that

it has been reported in Lewes that Federal government engineers will soon begin plans

for a large fort to be built at Cape Henlopen near the sand dunes and that other

government work will also be done in and about the Delaware Bay entrance and the

government engineers here are surveying the roads and bridges of Sussex county for
the war department.

Source: page 2, 11 September 1915, New Journal , special correspondence of Every

Evening journal.

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