HERCULES
TAKES OPTION
OF TRACT OF LAND
FROM
ROOSEVELT INLET TO BROADKILL RIVER
Lewes,
September 15, 1958, Hercules Powder Company, disclosed it has on an
option to
purchase about
1800 acres on the Delaware Bay a mile north of town. The boundary
covered by the option extends from Roosevelt Inlet area along both
sides f Canary Creek to the Broadkill.
This tract
includes lands owned by the Ritter family and the Brittingham family
and Lewes Town Commissioners. The option in case for the Lewes
property would be for long term lease, while the Ritter and
Brittingham lands would be an out right purchase.
J. H. Tyler
McConnell, secretary of the Hercules Powder Company, announced the
company has no immediate plans to construct a plant on this property,
just a desire to be prepared with an
available site
for future expansion in this area. The site is readily accessible
to ocean transport, rail
and highways
and even if it is largely marshland it can be reclaimed for
industrial use.
Hurcules
officials have said they will be good neighbors in every sense of the
word, just as it has proved to be in over twenty two other locations
in the United States where it has plants. The Lewes residents, as
well as those in other communities, the farmers, sport and
commercial fishermen,
wildlife,
should not be concerned. Hercules has established leadership in the
chemical industry for safety and employ relationship and community
co-operation.
The owners of
the properties involved, all Lewes residents, are: Grace
Brittingham, Edward Winfield Bittingham, Jane Dean Brittingham,
William Ritter and Lewes Town commissioners.
Abstract, from
Wilmington New Journal , Wilmington, Delaware, Thursday September 18,
1958.
Harrison
Howeth, 2017
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