Under orders from Peter Stuyvesant the Dutch erected Fort at Hoorn Kil (Lewes Creek) 1659 but were soon dispossessed by the Marylanders. Here was also a communistic settlement established in 1662 by Mennonites from Holland under Peter Cornelius Plockhoy. Sir Robert Carr, 1664, “Destroyed the quaking colony of Plockhoy to a Naile.”
Installed in 1933. Reinstalled in 1990 and 2022.
Historic Markers Commission, 1933
State of Delaware Historical Markers Program, 2022
109 West Market Street, Lewes, DE 19958
Related Topics: Fort at Hoorn Kil, Historical Markers, Lewes Creek, Peter Cornelis Plockhoy, Peter Stuyvesant, Sir Robert Carr