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 Cornelis Plockhoy. Sir Robert Carr, 1664. “Destroyed the quaking colony of Plockhoy to a Naile.”

 

SC-31: Re-installed in 2022.

 

Location:

109 West Market Street, Lewes, DE 19958

 

Links to more resources:

• SC-31: Collected Research Materials