DELAWARE SEASHORE PARKS AND BEACHES

DELAWARE SEASHORE PARKS & BEACHES

500.000 vacationers are expected to use state owned beach and camp grounds in 1959

and the season has been extended from May 23 to September 13 . Rates are to be the

the same a last year.

Key Box tenting area , doubled this year to 120 spaces which can be had for month or

season. There are spaces for overnight or weekend stays.

Savages Ditch area has been improved by a large parking area, picnic tables and a shallow

water area bay side for young children

There will be food and drink concessions at Towers Road, Key box Road and Savages

Ditch. Sanitary facilities will remain the same as last year, with daily serviced chemical

toilets..

Otto Zacharias of Lewes will serve as beach manager for the 1959 season.

Camping rates are $2 per day, $12 per week, $40 per month and $100 a season.

Life guards are provided at Key Box, Towers Road and the Indian river Inlet.

Abstract: Harrison H. 2018, May; Wilmington Morning News, Wednesday, February

4, 1959, By Betty Burroughs.