The day was cool and lightly overcast - good for driving. Lewes is all the way over to Chesapeake Bay side of Delaware, so Sue got to see lots of the same countryside that I did on my big lighthouse excursion to Delaware. It is very pretty. Lewes (said as Lewis") is the oldest town in Delaware. It is a small village and is fun to walk around. Lots of little shops. We had a great lunch and found a puzzle store wherewe bought some brain teasers. The picture below is of the oldest still-standing house in Delaware (the Ryves House, 1665) and also the oldest gravestone in Delaware (Margaret Huling, b. 1631, d. 1707). And there is the cannon-ball house, with the ball from a British shelling (War of 1812) embedded in the foundation (see it in the bricks). Yeah, there's a lot of history back here - you trip over it all the time. And we saw the OverFalls Lightship moored here.
We drove to Rehobeth so we could see the beach - it was windy and cold and a beach. Moving on.
We picked up another Light House - the Fenwick Island Light. It sits just North of the Mason-Dixon line, which turns out to be from colonial days and was used to settle disputes between Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland over who owned what. It's importance for slavery came later.
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