Decent amount of pics; go get a snack. Tweed was a shooting range during WWI; the tunnels were there to transport troops underneath the range to prevent anyone from accidentally being shot. The soldiers there may not have had to worry about friendly fire, but houses nearby were...
The back of the fort as seen from Fort Mott. We noticed on one of our visits to Fort Mott that a ferry runs among 3 forts: Forts Mott, Delaware, and DuPont. I found out Fort Delaware is on its own island, Pea Patch Island, in the middle...
Pratt Rock was to have been the tomb for Zadock Pratt, who was a very wealthy tanner and congressman. Many things are carved into the rock, including his face, a horse, names of his children, and his birth date. There is a small doorway where the tomb was...
The tour of Howe Caverns covers roughly 1 1/2 miles and is about 80 minutes. Part of the tour is a boat ride down “The River Styx”. While much larger and more popular than its competition up the road, Howe Caverns is also more commercial, with elevators leading...
Just up the road from Howe Caverns is the lesser known Secret Caverns. Secret Caverns is the overlooked lil’ guy out of the two. The caverns are smaller than Howe’s, and the tour is about half the time. But Secret Caverns has something going for it…it’s not commercialized,...
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery I was being forced to go to a wedding for Annie’s cousin in New York, so I figured I might as well make a weekend trip out of it. Weddings are painful enough as it is, but this was especially awkward for me – I...
A fine example of a place being less than what you’d expect. I had read about this house in a book or two. Seeing how it was also included on some Lewes maps, I figured it’d be a worthwhile addition to my trip there. If you don’t know...
This was my main reason for visiting Lewes. I had read about 7 concrete towers along the coast that were from World War II. Back when German U-boats were a possible threat in the Delaware Bay, many concrete towers were built along the coast to keep watch for...
