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Lewes (/ ˈ l uː. ə s / LOO-əss) [5] is an incorporated city on the Delaware Bay in eastern Sussex County, Delaware, United States.According to the 2020 census, its population was 3,303. [6]
Several bridges cross the canal, and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel join the peninsula to mainland Maryland and Virginia, respectively. Another point of access is Lewes, Delaware, reachable by the Cape May–Lewes Ferry from Cape May, New Jersey. Dover, Delaware, is the peninsula's largest city by population.
The first European settlement in the state of Delaware was founded by the Dutch in 1631 near the present-day town of Lewes on the Atlantic Coast. However, Sussex County was not organized until 1683 under English colonial rule. Sussex County is included in the Salisbury, MD-DE metropolitan statistical area which encompasses much of central Delmarva.
The Queen Anne's Railroad was a railroad that ran between Love Point, Maryland, and Lewes, Delaware during the late 19th and early 20th Century. It connected to Baltimore via ferry across the Chesapeake Bay, to Cape May, New Jersey via a ferry across the Delaware Bay and to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware via another railroad.
The Eastern Shore of Maryland is a part of the U.S. state of Maryland that lies mostly on the east side of the Chesapeake Bay. Nine counties are normally included in the region. The Eastern Shore is part of the larger Delmarva Peninsula that Maryland shares with Delaware and Virginia.
Delaware (/ ˈ d ɛ l ə w ɛər / ⓘ DEL-ə-wair) [11] is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic states [12] region of the United States. [13] It borders Maryland to its south and west, Pennsylvania to its north, New Jersey to its northeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to its east.
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Within Maryland the county is the default unit of local government. Under Maryland law, counties exercise powers reserved in most other states at the municipal or state levels. [ 4 ] Many of the state's most populous and economically important communities, such as Bethesda , Silver Spring , Columbia , and Towson are unincorporated and receive ...