BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:SoDel X-WR-CALNAME:Avery's Rest: 350 years of history! BEGIN:VEVENT UID:253092024-09-26 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240926 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240927 LOCATION:511 Rehoboth Avenue\nRehoboth Beach Delaware 19971 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=511 Rehoboth Avenue\nRehobo th Beach Delaware 19971;X-APPLE-RADIUS=49;X-TITLE=511 Rehoboth Avenue:geo: 38.714794,-75.092239 GEO:38.714794;-75.092239 SUMMARY:Avery's Rest: 350 years of history! CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The site know as Avery's Rest was excavated in 2007–08 by the \nDelaware Archaeological Society\, and the remains found added a new\ndim ension to what life was like in Colonial times. Eleven African\nAmerican b odies were found\, believed to be the earliest discovered\nColonial period grave sites.\n\n \n\nDaniel Griffith\, who lead the excavations\, will b e at the Rehoboth\nBeach Museum to talk about this discovery and its impor tance to\nDelaware history.\n\n \n\nIn 1674\, an Englishman named John Av ery settled with his wife and\nchildren in Rehoboth 5 miles south of Whore kill (Lewes) on a 300 acre\nplot at the north shore of Rehoboth Bay\, tit led Avery's Rest.The land\nwas formally named\, recorded\, and granted to him under the authority\nof the Duke of York\, and is known today as the R ehoboth Beach Yacht &\nCountry Club. \n\n \n\nCaptain John Avery died in November\, 1682\, leaving his plantation to\nhis wife and three children. The total known acreage granted to or\nbought by Captain John Avery in th e Lewes/Rehoboth area was in excess\nof 3\,135 acres\, or about 5 square m iles. His final land acquisition\nwas 325 acres consisting of Horse Island in Rehoboth Bay and its\nsurrounding marshlands. You may know it today as Thompson Island.\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The site know as Avery' \;s Rest was excavated in 2007&ndash\;08 by the Delaware Archaeological So ciety\, and the remains found added a new dimension to what life was like in Colonial times. Eleven African American bodies were found\, believed to be the earliest discovered Colonial period grave sites.

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Daniel Griffith\, who lead th e excavations\, will be at the Rehoboth Beach Museum to talk about this di scovery and its importance to Delaware history.

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In 1674\, an Englishman named John Ave ry settled with his wife and children in Rehoboth 5 miles south of Whoreki ll (Lewes) on a 300 acre plot at the north \;shore of Rehoboth Bay\, t itled Avery'\;s Rest.The land was formally named\, recorded\, and grant ed to him under the authority of the Duke of York\, and is known today as the Rehoboth Beach Yacht &\; Country Club. \;

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Captain John Avery died in Novemb er\, 1682\, leaving his plantation to his wife and three children. The tot al known acreage granted to or bought by Captain John Avery in the Lewes/R ehoboth area was in excess of 3\,135 acres\, or about 5 square miles. His final land acquisition was 325 acres consisting of Horse Island in Rehobot h Bay and its surrounding marshlands. You may know it today as Thompson Is land.

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