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Bethel, DE - History
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Welcome to the Bethel Home page. The Bethel Home page provides as much information as possible on Bethel. Knowing Bethel’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Bethel’s Home page, you will also find Bethel’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Bethel has a population of 404. 47.3% of Bethel’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.7 are female. 64.1% of Bethel is married and 94.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $190,016. Household median income in Bethel is $73,906, and the individual median income is $29,671. Bethel’s Ethnic is the following: White(73.5%), Multiple(19.8%), Hispanic(19.3%), Black(6.7%).
Bethel is a small, well-preserved 19th century shipbuilding and trading community. Wooden sailing vessels were constructed by Bethel's skilled ship carpenters until the early-20th century. The most significant class of Bethel craft were the Chesapeake sailing rams, which originated from this Broad Creek port.The town of Bethel was formerly known as both Lewis' Wharf and Lewisville.
The site was originally part of five hundred acres granted by the province of Maryland to James Caldwell in 1728. Settlement of this area was inhibited by the continuous boundary disputes between Maryland and the Penn family. In 1795, Kendal Major Lewis, the founder of Bethel, acquired much of James Caldwell's original grant as well as a smaller tract on Broad Creek, known as Mitchell's Harbor.
Here he established a landing that grew to become a prosperous trading center. In the 1840s, Lewis' Wharf developed into a thriving community known as Lewisville.Within the next 20 years, Lewisville was to become an important shipbuilding center. The extensive forests along the Nanticoke provided abundant supplies of virgin pine, oak and cypress.
In 1869, Jonathan Moore of Lewisville established the most important marine railway on the peninsula south of Wilmington. John M. C. Moore, superintendent of Lewisville's Marine Railway Company, originated the well-known Chesapeake sailing ram. This class of sailing vessel was designed as an economical, flatbottom, three masted schooner; its operation required only a small crew.
Rams were used for coastal freight primarily on the Chesapeake Bay. Between 1871 and 1918, as many as thirty rams were built in Lewisville shipyards.In 1880, when the village applied for a post office, its name was changed to Bethel, since another Lewisville, Delaware, post office already existed.Bethel's population was 400 in 1890, and was 387 in 1900.The Bethel Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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