Lorenzo Dow Martin the Founding of Rehoboth

In the early 1870s, when the Methodist Episcopalians from Wilmington decided to find a location for camp meetings, they

settled on a seaside farm below Lewes. That farm, belonging to a cranberry farmer named Lorenzo Dow Martin, would

become the commercial core of Rehoboth Beach. Lorenzo’s tiny farmhouse would serve as the operational headquarters from

which the town was created. That farmhouse, now over 200 years old, still exists in Rehoboth at 30 Christian Street. It is built with wooden pegs and rests on a foundation of tree trunks.

Find out more by joining us July 11, at 5pm, at the Rehoboth Beach Museum to hear Paul Lovett on the founding of Rehoboth Beach.