LEWES HISTORY
1940
CAESAR RODNEY HOTEL TO BE
SOLD
Lewes, Delaware
Friday, March 15, 1940:
The Caesar Rodney hotel
at Lewes is to change ownership the first of April,
1940. The owners,
The Lewes Hotel Company, have accepted the offer of John
E. C. Hill, of Berlin,
Maryland to purchase the hostelry for an undisclosed
price.
The hotel, built in
1927, by the Lewes Hotel Company, is a three story brick
structure serving
commercial travelers and tourist trade. The last manager was
Major
Harry M. Stanford who has
moved to Middletown to manage the Old Witherspoon Inn.
John E. C. Hill had
managed the Caesar Rodney Hotel prior to 1936, before he took
over
The Brick Hotel in
Georgetown and later the Atlantic Hotel in Berlin and at one
time
was manager at Seaford's
Hotel Sussex.
Officers of The Lewes
Hotel Company are John Thompson,, William E. Walsh
Frank Carter and
Cornelius Marshall.
ABSTRACT: Wilmington News
Journal, Friday, March 15, 1940
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