DRULY TIDE STORM

HISTORY OF CAPE HENLOPEN

1831 DRULY TIDE

A significant date in Fenwick Islands history is January 15, 1831 when the Druly Tide

caused the drownings of many persons and animals . A report told the wind gust caused the waters to reach 13 to 18 feet above the usual level of the marshes. The Druly Tide was a

storm off the sea and was called that because a sea captain of Indian River Inlet by name of

Druly died in ths storm . At Lewes, this same storm was called Normans Flood, for a man named Norman who died at his 1812 home on the Henlopen Capes from the storm.

OCEAN OFF FENWICK FROZEN

Around 1895, a Fenwick area resident , Jim Bishop, drove a team of horses to a snow sleigh

on the Atlantic in a snow storm, the ocean being frozen in to chunks along the coast because

of a severe cold spell. This ice took several cottages off Hammck's Island near by Fenwick.

It was not until April that the ice cakes melted. A mill pond near Selbyville had 14 inch thick ice.

MONEY BANKS BEACH

A part of the beach not far from the lighthouse is called Money Banks beach for the fact that

lots of Spanish coins washed up by tides and breakers and gathered by beach residents who worked up the sands to secure up to $15.00 in silver coin.

Abstract: Selbyville Delmarva News, Thursday, August 6, 1959