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This week in Delaware history
June 16
1671 — British Governor Lovelace conveyed Poplar Neck near St. Jones Creek on the Delaware Bay in Kent County to Thomas Young.
June 17
1858 — The Hygenia House at Collins Beach in lower New Castle County opened for business for the summer season. Rooms cost $7 per week or $1.25 per day. Meals cost 50 cents, while an experienced hostler would be on hand to tend the horses.
June 18
2005 — Glenn Cave of Dagsboro, fishing at the Harbor of Refuge Light in Delaware Bay near Lewes, caught a state record tautog fish of 21 pounds, 4 ounces. It was 31 inches long and had a 23.5-inch girth.
June 19
2001 — Since 1990, Delaware’s population had risen 17.6 percent. The populations of individual counties were also up, in New Castle County by 13.2 percent, to 500,265; in Kent by 14.1 percent, to 126,697; and in Sussex by a whopping 38.3 percent, to 156,638 people.
June 20
1836 — The Delaware Railroad, chartered with the intention of building a railroad from Wilmington to the southern end of the state, failed for lack of support and the depression of 1837.
June 21
2005 — Beachgoers and merchants expressed gladness with the state’s announcement that sand replenishment had widened the beach 175 feet at Rehoboth and would be about three or four times as wide as the previous year.
June 22
1937 — The world premiere of the Warner Brothers film “The Singing Marine,” starring Dick Powell, was held in Wilmington’s Aldine Theater.
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