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Resident Hotline: Phone: (888) 325-6148 Sales Consultant: Cynthia Surface Phone: (888) 534-3037 Sales Office Hours Mon - Fri: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Community Manager Cindy Surface Phone: (888) 534-3037 Office Hours: Mon - Fri: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sat: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Evenings by Appointment Sea Air Village 19837 Sea Air Avenue Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971 |
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Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk
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The lighthouse closest to the town of Lewes off Cape Henlopen State Park was decommissioned in 1994 and is currently 'for sale - the inner breakwater in 1829 and the Harbor of Refuge, or outer breakwater, was established in 1901. Massive granite boulders make up the breakwaters that have protected the coastline for more than a century.
The original breakwater was commissioned in 1828 by President John Quincy Adams. Just how the breakwater was constructed still baffles experts today. According to retired engineer and Lewes author and historian Eric Pearson, he would rather take on the "building of the pyramids than the outer breakwater at Cape Henlopen."
According to Pearson, fitting hundreds of 13-ton slabs of granite perfectly in 75 feet of water in the late 1800s is comparable to "going to Mars" today. "Even as an engineer I can't figure out how they built it," he said.
The outer breakwater, which is 1 1/2 miles long, was built because the water in the inner breakwater was too shallow for larger vessels. It took 40 years to construct the inner breakwater, but only five years to build the outer. 
Jungle Jim's
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Midway Speedway
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Funland Amusement Park
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