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Old Posted Oct 31, 2019, 4:47 AM
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For Delaware, I guess I would have to pick Lewes (pronounced "Lewis"). It's a little like Cape May, which has been named a couple times already. It has some Victorian architecture, but not as much as Cape May. It also sits across Delaware Bay from Cape May. Lewes is most unique in that it was the site of a Dutch fort (although New Castle also had one), is the site of a Dutch dike (New Castle also has one of those), has our oldest building (1685) and that it was attacked by the British in the War of 1812. It has beaches like the rest of southern Delaware, but has history like northern Delaware.

I was going to go with New Castle, which is an old colonial town, but you can find enough of that in the area in other states. New Castle itself tried to emulate Philadelphia back in the 1700s and early 1800s, so it can't be that unique then. Some of the unique Dutch elements in New Castle can be found in Lewes, mentioned above.
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