DEWEY BEACH TOWN HALL REPLICA OF 1876 REHOBOTH LIFESAVING STATION

HISTORY OF CAPE HENLOPEN AND BEYOND

DEWEY BEACH TOWN HALL COPIES 1876 LIFE SAVING STATION

The Rehoboth Lifesaving Station, actually was located at the ocean end of Dagsworthy Street at Dewey Beach in 1876. A replica of the station has been built with a donation from Mary C. Heisler in 1989 and is to serve as the Dewey Beach Town Hall.

In 1981 Dewey Beach was incorporated and the town officials searched for a larger

meeting place than the St. Lois Street meeting place. Under consideration was the

actual Lifesaving Station building sitting just out of Dewey on the Delaware Route 1 highway

was in poor shape and needed restoration. The plan was to move the 1876 building back to the former Dewey site and restore it, but the owners and the town could not reach an agreement to buy it.

Dewey Beach commissioner Alex Pires organized a fund and Sam Fader did research to build the replica with the three front dormers, cupola and the large doors. Pores said the construction was done much as it would have been in the 1800's with clapboards and

black shutters. Many artifacts from the original station have been donated.

Abstract: Wilmington News Journal , Monday June 19 1989