HISTORY OF CAPE HENLOPEN
AND BEYOND
BROADKILN BEACH 1899
WATTERLOO
Special to the Morning
News, Milton, Wednesday, July 4, 1899 :
Broadkiln Beach, famous
old Sussex summer resort take on new life. Some time ago
Watterloo, now Broadkiln
Beach, was a better known pleasure resort than is Rehoboth
today.
Yes Watterloo, with the
Mt. Pleasant Inn Hotel, has come to life again and many families of
note are spending the summers there. This resort is 7 miles
of Milton and 6 miles of Lewes and
you can see loaded
passenger carriages, 10 to 15 at a time, en route to this resort
to spend
a few days at the sports of
fishing with hook and line, crab dipping , bathing ect.
The Queen Ann's Railroad
t o Rehoboth Beach caused Broadkill's Watterloo resort to fade
away. However the Milton,
Ellendale, Harbeson residents have summer cottages there at
the 'Beach” as it is
best known. There were the Beach people, those the ones that stayed
at the beach all four seasons, Uncle Jack Vent with his sailboat,
relating anecdotes and showing off beach life. It is said that
when he had to move to town for care, some visitors did not return
to “the beach” because
he was not there. “Spots” Morris, Sussex's genuine fox
hunter is
located at Broadkill Beach,
with his hounds. Spots entertains visitors twice a week y turning
loose a tom cat with a lead
time then lets his 27 fox hounds go in pursuit with fox hound
music
Dr. W. Joseph Hearne.
Philadelphia surgeon, has a cottage the Watterloo, as does Charles
C. Conley, Red Men Records Keeper.
Abstract: Wilmington
Morning News, Wednesday, July 4, 1899
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