Saturday, May 18, 2019

BIDEN ON CAPE HENLOPEN 1982


HISTORY OF CAPE HENLOPEN AND BEYOND

WHAT SENATOR J. R. BIDEN HAD TO SAY ABOUT CAPE HENLOPEN IN 1982

Senator Biden always enjoyed visiting Cape Henlopen State Park but was now to
enjoy it more since the Federal General Service Commission formalized a decision
reached in 1982 to turn back to the people of Delaware 330 acres of land controlled
by the Navy.

Biden regrets that Senator Caleb Bogggs is not around to enjoy the return as it was he who
began back in 1971 the campaign to get back the Government lands. Biden said his
primary objective to return the Cape dunes to the generations ahead. There has been a
10 year struggle with federal bureaucracy to make this decision. The first land was
retrurned in 1978 by the Navy controlled beach front and the Army's 94 acres. The ob is
not done yet as the Navy still has 15 acres and the Army 95.

Abstract: Salisbury Daily Times, Friday, October 22, 1982.

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