Lewes is an incorporated city on the Delaware Bay in eastern Sussex County, Delaware, United States. According to the 2020 census, its population was 3,303. Along with neighboring Rehoboth Beach, Lewes is one of the principal cities of Delaware's rapidly growing Cape Region. The city lies within the Salisbury, Maryland–Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. Lewes proudly claims to be "The First Town in The First State."
Second Street in downtown Lewes
Lightship Overfalls, preserved as a tourist attraction.
1655 Ryves Holt House, the oldest structure in Delaware
University of Delaware's wind turbine seen from Canary Creek
Delaware Bay is the estuary outlet of the Delaware River on the northeast seaboard of the United States, lying between the states of Delaware and New Jersey. It is approximately 782 square miles (2,030 km2) in area, the bay's freshwater mixes for many miles with the saltwater of the Atlantic Ocean.
Delaware Bay in Winter
Beginning of the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal at the Roosevelt inlet
The shore on Cape May, near the Atlantic Ocean
Nautical chart of Zwaanendael Colony, a Dutch colony, and Godyn's Bay (Delaware Bay), 1639