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    Statistical Area. Lewes proudly claims to be "The First Town in The First State." Lewes was the site of the first European settlement in Delaware, a whaling...
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    The Cape May–Lewes Ferry is a ferry system in the United States that traverses a 17-mile (27 km) crossing of the Delaware Bay connecting North Cape May...
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    Delaware, and Cape May, Cumberland, and Salem in New Jersey. The Cape May–Lewes Ferry crosses Delaware Bay from North Cape May, New Jersey, to Lewes,...
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    east to Lewes, where it leads to the Cape May–Lewes Ferry, which carries US 9 across the Delaware Bay to New Jersey. US 9 was extended to Delaware by way...
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  • Kingdom Lewes (UK Parliament constituency), a Parliamentary constituency in East Sussex Lewes, Delaware, a city in Sussex County, Delaware, US Lewes, Prince...
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    Along with the neighboring coastal town of Lewes, Rehoboth Beach is one of the principal cities of Delaware's rapidly growing Cape Region. Rehoboth Beach...
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    authority operates the Delaware Memorial twin suspension bridges, the Cape May-Lewes Ferry between Cape May, New Jersey, and Lewes, Delaware, the Forts Ferry...
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    colonized by Dutch traders at Zwaanendael, near present-day Lewes, Delaware, in 1631. Delaware was one of the Thirteen Colonies that participated in the...
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    European settlement in the state of Delaware was founded by the Dutch in 1631 near the present-day town of Lewes on the Atlantic Coast. However, Sussex...
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  • Earl Bradley (category People from Lewes, Delaware)
    Morrell Park. He continued to work at Jefferson until a sudden move to Lewes, Delaware on the Delmarva Peninsula in 1995. The move was abrupt and poorly planned...
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    Theodore Freeman (category People from Lewes, Delaware)
    (Thomas Cordy Wilson). He was one of five children. Raised in Lewes, Delaware, he attended Lewes Elementary School from 1936 to 1944. His father was a farmer...
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    and Kent counties in Delaware. In 1631 the Dutch sent a group of twenty-eight men to build a fort inside Cape Henlopen on Lewes Creek to establish the...
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    May–Lewes Ferry terminal. The entire length of US 9 Bus. is designated as part of the Historic Lewes Byway, Gateway to the Bayshore, a Delaware Byway...
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  • 2012. The Historic Lewes Byway, Gateway to the Bayshore (formerly Lewes, Gateway to the Nation Byway and Lewes Byway) runs through Lewes on Pilottown Road/First...
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    in Delaware. It was built in 1631. The name is archaic Dutch for "swan valley." The site of the settlement later became the town of Lewes, Delaware. Two...
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    Another point of access is Lewes, Delaware, reachable by the Cape May–Lewes Ferry from Cape May, New Jersey. Dover, Delaware, is the peninsula's largest...
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    Georgetown is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. Lewes, sited on the Delaware Bay, was designated as the first county seat...
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  • Charles Brandt (category People from Lewes, Delaware)
    stepfather to two children. He lived in the cities of Wilmington and Lewes in Delaware, and in Sun Valley, Idaho. Brandt died at a hospice in Wilmington...
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    heads north to the Rehoboth Beach Park and Ride and the Lewes Transit Center Park and Ride near Lewes to connect to other Beach Bus routes and the Route 305...
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    September 18, 1817) was an American lawyer and politician from Lewes, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was an officer in the Continental Army during the American...
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  • Kristen Visbal (category People from Lewes, Delaware)
    (born December 3, 1962) is an American sculptor living and working in Lewes, Delaware. She specializes in lost-wax casting in bronze. Visbal was born in...
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  • Beebe Healthcare (category Lewes, Delaware)
    Sussex County in southern Delaware in the United States. Its primary facility is Beebe Medical Center, a hospital in Lewes. Beebe Medical Center was founded...
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    Naturalist. She left that job to write freelance and spent time in Lewes, Delaware, researching the coastal area and writing her book Notes From the Shore...
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    Transpeninsular Line (category Borders of Delaware)
    boundary of Delaware. This place is better known as Fenwick Island. Twenty-four miles north is another cape named Cape Henlopen near Lewes, Delaware. Various...
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  • Lydia Chichester du Pont (category Road incident deaths in Delaware)
    Governors of Children's Beach House, Inc. a charitable organization in Lewes, Delaware for underprivileged children with health issues. Lydia du Pont was...
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  • of Lewes may refer to: Lewes, Delaware, a city in Sussex County, Delaware, in the United States USS City of Lewes (SP-383), later renamed USS Lewes (SP-383)...
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  • Thumbnail for Coleman House (Lewes, Delaware)
    Coleman House is a historic home located at Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware. It dates to about 1815, and consists of a two-story, three-bay, frame main...
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  • – c. 1664–1670, Lewes, Delaware) was a Dutch Mennonite and Collegiant utopist who founded a settlement in 1663 near Horekill (Lewes Creek) on the banks...
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    The U.S. state of Delaware is divided into three counties, the fewest of any state in the United States: New Castle, Kent and Sussex. The origin of the...
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    Lenape (redirect from Delaware (tribe))
    New York City. Dutch settlers also founded a colony at present-day Lewes, Delaware, on June 3, 1631, and named it Zwaanendael (Swan Valley). The colony...
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