Sunday, July 7, 2019
ON THE ROAD TO FENWICK ISLAND
HISTORY OF CAPE HENLOPEN
AND BEYOND
ON THE ROAD TO FENWICK
ISLAND FROM REHOBOTH
February 9, 1915:
Wilmington Evening Journal :
A hundred year ago is was
difficult to travel between these two beach towns, a sandy
road of wild sand dunes
from Dewey Beach southward to Fenwick Island, an inlet at
Indian River Inlet with no
bridge, and a new town under construction , Bethany Beach.
By horse or foot it was
difficult to traverse the round about way and autos needed to use
the highways on the
western side of the inland bays, through Millsboro.
In 1915, The Delaware
Public Lands Commission, issued a report to urge the building of
a
coastal road between
Rehoboth and Fenwick, across the wicked dunes that “will return a
thousand fold to the
state for every dollar spent”. Yes, they knew of the many
obstacles
that lay in the way for an
early 20th century road, sandy, unpaved, rutted and
impassable
in wet weather. Plus,
until 1911 there were no roads to feed western or northern traffic
to
the coastal highways. That
came about when T. Coleman du Pont built his own hard surface
road north to south in
mid state. Still this event did not directly benefit at coastal
road
from Rehoboth to Fenwick.
Farm produce, at that time '”marsh hay grass' was the only
money maker with a small
bit of cattle grazing.
Oceanside vacation homes
did catch a few eyes of the more wealthy property owners and
the Indian River Inlet
needed to be covered. The commission knew they were late with these
decisions but WW I delays,
squabbling politics and economic difficulties stood in the path.
It was 1939 before a hard
surface road appeared with a bridge over the inlet, but, it did,
“return a thousand fold
of every dollar spent”.
Abstract: 9 February,
1915, Wilmington Evening News, and Michael Morgan's Delaware
Diary, Delaware Coast
Press, 2019.
Saturday, July 6, 2019
MELENIA TRUMP
RECOGNITION TO MELANIA
TRUMP
God Bless BRAD DOWNEY
and her SLOVENIAN hometown
for the commissioned
statue of Melenia to be built.
Let us hear the status
and location of this monument from time to time.
1876 JULY 4TH AT LEWES
HISTORY OF LEWES DELAWARE
LEWES 4TH JULY
CELEBRATION. 6 JULY 1876.
The Wilmington Daily
Commercial , 6 July 1886, commented, the 4 July 1876
celebration deserves
more than than a passing notice. Most notable was the parade
of the Continental Guards
organized two weeks before by Captain S. S. Bookhammer
with Continental
Uniforms, cocked hats, knee britches, buckles of brass, and
all.
In 1786, 100 years
before before, the celebration of the signing of the Declaration
of
Independence, was a bit
more subdued.
After several battles won
by the British, British Captain Andrew Snape Hamond ,
has the HMS Roebuck at
the Delaware River , somewhat in charge of British shipping and
the control of a 'group'
of Tory's proclaim Loyalty to the King Of England and had
reported to his
commanding officer, “ I have the pleasure to inform you that
the
inhabitants of the Lower
Two Counties on the Delaware have had 3000 arms taken
up and declare
themselves in favor of the British government”.
Hamon was correct about
this support to the British in Kent and Sussex on the Delaware,
but failed to note the Lewes residents were strongly in support of
the American Independence and the Patriots of Lewes organized
and led by Henry Fisher, William
Peery, in resistance to
the British. The American Patroit group was able to carry on
the dominance of the Delaware Bay and River and lower
Sussex by actions in the shipping with much needed war
supplies to Philadelphia and the British Forces.
On the day the signing
of the Declaration, Lewes was under siege. W illiam Adair
announced in his 1776 Journal, “Independence Proclaimed, by
the head of “ye Delaware Battalion , July 10, with 3
Cheers”. The days later, July 20, Independence of Lewes was
declared by three 'toast'
of the their three cannon.
The 100th
anniversary, 1876, Lewes made the celebration the “Greatest
Ever” and
2000 people attended. The
Wilmington Daily Commercial reported after political speeches
100 guns of the Guards
were fired and a parade was made with a draft of four horses
which filled the streets
and all moved to the beach at dusk to see fireworks of shooting
stars and combinations of
brilliant effect.
Abstract: Wilmington
Daily Commercial, July 6, 1867, a column of Delaware Diary,
by Michael Morgan,
Delaware Coast Press on July 3, 2019 .
Friday, July 5, 2019
JOHNNY CARSON REPLACES JACK PAAR
THE MORNING SHOW TV
HISTORY
JOHNNY CARSON TO REPLACE
JACK PAAR
Monday, December 13,
1954 : Baltimore Evening Sun, Baltimore , Maryland.
Johnny Carson, a young
Hollywood comedian, will take over for Jack Paar, as host
of the “Morning Show”,
January 3, while Paar is on vacatoion in Cuba.
Carson, who won critics
acclaim last season when he took over the Red Skel ton
Show on a four hour
notice when Skelton fell ill. Johnny Carson first won an
audience
in Corning , Iowa while
in high school as an magician and ventriloquist.
During WW II as a Navy
Ensign , served on the USS Pennsylvania, as an
Entertainer, was
discharged in 1949 , and became a television announcer in
Omaha.
While there he married
Jody Wolcott and headed toward Hollywood. Last summer he was
emcee for the quiz show
“Earn Your Vacation”
Corning is the County
Seat of Adams County Seat Iowa , sits at the intersection of
Highway U. S. 34 and Iowa
148 southwest of Omaha . Carson is also the 1877 birthplace
of Daniel Webster
Turner, Governor of Iowa 1931 to 1933. It was a settlement of
French
Icarians on the Icaria
Lake.
Home of the “Johnny
Carson Birthplace Society”, and the annual celebration of
“Le Festival De
L'Heritage Francais”.
Abstract: Baltimore
Evening Sun, Monday, 13 December, 1954 and Wikipedia.
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
JUNCTION & BEAKWATER RAILROAD ENGINE HOUSE,
RAILROAD HISTORY
JUNCTION & BREAKWATER
LEWES ENGINE HOUSE.
Monday, 21 August, 1882
: Wilmington, Delaware Daily Gazette :
A new engne house for the
Junction amd Brealwater Railroad has been opened at Queen
Ann's Street and Pilot
Town Road, Lewes.
The Railroad is now
building it's own box cars with several already in use.at this
time.
It is the intrntion to
erect a large machine shop along the line somwhere yet not
decided
upon.
Abstract: Daily Gazette,
Wilmington, Delaware,, 21 August, 1882.
Saturday, June 29, 2019
REHOBOTH BEACH HISTORY OF MOSQUOTOES
REHOBORTH BEACH HISTORY
1882 THRU 1897
WHEN MOSQUOTOES PLAYED,
FRISKED AND FROLOICKED
Rehoboth Sunday Star,
Daily Gazette , August 20, 1882:
Since our last news a
week ago the trials and trouble has been mosquitoes, taking
the breeze from mother
ocean in piece. The sound of the hum of the peasky insect
early every morning,
throughout the day, the stinginging of it's bites, was the last
note
which lulled a weary one
to rest.
Hundered of guests left on
this account . “Smothers” , beach bond fires and netting
were common everywhere.
“Hope” kept many here and that hope came yesterday mornning
troughout the day when a
ocean breeze came and the mosquitoes left.
Abstract:: Wilmington
Daily Gazette, Monday, August 21, 1982:
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