Lewes (Sussex County)

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottles

Codd and soda bottles

Sea pottery

Also reported: blob-top beers, clay pipes, ship and net hardware, buttons, and coins around the old canal front, pilot houses, fishery sites, and colonial town lots..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Historic pilot and fishing town on the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal at the mouth of Delaware Bay, one of the oldest settlements on the Delaware coast.