CAPE HENLOPEN HISTORY
1935 NAVY BASE
United States Secretary
of War, George Dern, has a request to Delaware
Governor Buck , asking
for the Delaware Legislature to cede to the United States
government at tract of
land at Cape Henlopen for a Navy submarine base. Governor
Buck has taken the matter
up with Lewes Mayor Hocker to see if there be any objection
since Lewes Commissioners
have the lease-hold control of the public lands on the bay front.
State Legislation is
required, same as was done for the Quarantine Station, which is
` part of the tract wanted
by the Navy. The United States Government has already approved
the establishment of the
Navy Base at Cape Henlopen but just how soon the base would be
built in unknown.
Abstract: Wilmington
News Journal , Friday, January 18, 1935
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