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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 2022.

Sponsors:

Historic Markers Commission, 1933.

State of Delaware Historic Markers Program, 2022.


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Location:

109 West Market Street, Lewes, DE 19958


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