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312
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$53,333
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America/New_York
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Bowers, DE - History
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Welcome to the Bowers Home page. The Bowers Home page provides as much information as possible on Bowers. Knowing Bowers’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Bowers’s Home page, you will also find Bowers’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Bowers has a population of 312. 40.4% of Bowers’s inhabitants are Male, and 59.6 are female. 57.2% of Bowers is married and 77.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $215,288, and the average rent is $967. Household median income in Bowers is $53,333, and the individual median income is $35,000. Bowers’s Ethnic is the following: White(90.4%), Black(4.8%), Asian(3.5%), Hispanic(1.3%), Multiple(0.6%), Other(0.6%).
Bowers Beach was originally settled in the late 1600s and was named Whitwell's Delight by Francis Whitwell. The land was acquired by William Frampton in 1685 and was called Dover Peers. After Frampton died, the land was sold to William Bassett. Eventually, 420 acres of Whitwell's Delight belonged to Nathaniel and Mary Hunn.
After Nathaniel Hunn died in 1734, his children sold the land to John Bowers and the land along the Delaware Bay between the St. Jones River and Murderkill River became known as Bowers Beach starting on August 16, 1734. The land later belonged to John Bowers' son and then his granddaughter, with the latter being the last person in the Bowers family to own the land.
Part of the land was acquired by John Booth in 1750, who sold it later in the year to Benjamin Chew. By the 1800s, the properties in Bowers Beach were owned by Joseph Wood. The properties were later sold to multiple owners.Bowers' population was 150 in 1890, and was 146 in 1900.On March 9, 1907, Bowers was incorporated.
In 1962, the settlement was reincorporated as the Town of Bowers.Throughout its history, Bowers Beach was a major fishing town along the Delaware Bay and once saw an average of 300 boats at the docks. Today, people come to Bowers Beach for fishing, swimming, birdwatching, kayaking, sailing, and the beaches along the Delaware Bay.The Fourteen Foot Bank Light and Saxton United Methodist Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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