Lewes (Shields Elem)

Sussex County · dedicated 1932 · 889 Savannah Road, Lewes · location approximate

Here lived Ryves Holt, Colonial Chief Justice; and four Governors, David Hall, who commanded a Delaware regiment in the Revolution, Daniel Rodney and Caleb Rodney, sons of John Rodney, and Ebe Tunnell; also Colonel Henry Fisher, Revolutionary patriot, and Dr. Jacob Jones, later Commodore, U.S.N.

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