Sandy Run Church / Christian Theus

Sandy Run Church

This Lutheran church, one of the oldest in the state, is thought to have been organized ca.1765. By 1774, the Rev. Lewis Hochheimer was minister here. The church was incorporated in 1788 as "The German Lutheran Church of ...

First Unitarian Church of Oakland

Designed in 1889 by Walter J. Mathews, this solid masonry Romanesque church departed radically from California's traditional Gothic wood frame construction. Noted for its world famous stained glass windows produced by Goodhue of Boston, and for arching redwood spans, the ...

Charge and Countercharge

After ordering Webster to attack, Cornwallis commanded Lt. Col., Lord Rawdon to advance on his left. Through heavy fire, they drove back the 2nd Maryland Brigade until Gen. Baron De Kalb succeeded in halting the British charge and leading a ...

Otis H. Smith City Dock

In Honor of Otis H. Smith

Entrepreneur, Civil Servent

Mayor, City of Lewes

1950-1968

Otis H. Smith was the founder and President of

Fish Products Co., one of the country's largest

menhaden processing operations.

During his long residency in Lewes, Mr. Smith ...

The Chadbourne Carriage House

Thomas Jefferson Chadbourne and his wife Nettie built this Victorian carriage house in the 1870’s. He owned fine racing horses and stock horses and wanted them housed in suitable surroundings.

They purchased the property in 1872 from Charles C. Breyfogle, one ...

Defeat in the Center

Acrid smoke made it hard to breathe or see. The roar of gunfire and the death-cries of comrades made it hard to hear or think. The 1st Maryland Brigade and the NC militia battled the British 23rd and 33rd Regiments ...

This Tablet Marks the Site of Old Fort Cumberland

Which was built in 1755 by order of the British Government and named in honor of the Duke of Cumberland, Captain General of the British Army. It was the base of military operations of General Edward Braddock and Colonel George ...

Confederate Breakout

February 15, 1862

"Fill your cartridge boxes, quick, and get into line; the enemy is trying to escape and he must not be permitted to do so."

Col. J.D. Webster, USA

The advantage lay with the Confederates. They could press the attack and ...

Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, U.S. Navy

Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, U. S. Navy, pioneer in naval aviation and Commander of Naval Air Task Force 58, famed for its destruction of Japanese sea power in World War II, was born in Hillsboro, January 26, 1887. A 1910 ...

General Gate's Disgrace

When the militia fled before the initial British charge, Gates tried to rally them. However, the throng of panicked militiamen swept him up in their northward flight.

Far removed from the battlefield, Gates assumed that his army had been defeated and ...