Dagsboro’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 5 old photos of Dagsboro. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Dagsboro, incorporated in the early 1900s, is a town that is energized in summer by Delaware Route 26 beach traffic. The town, in the Indian River School District, was founded in 1747 and has been known as Blackfoot Town, Dagsbury and Dagsborough. It was named for John Dagworthy, a brigadier general of the Sussex County Militia during the American Revolutionary War.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Dagsboro’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo5 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewHistoric American Buildings Surve…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Dagsboro
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Dagsboro, decade by decade
2000
unknown5 items
CommonsDate?Historic American Buildings Survey Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubba…
CommonsDate?Historic American Buildings Survey Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubba…
CommonsDate?Historic American Buildings Survey Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubba…
CommonsDate?SOUTHEAST SIDE - Prince George's Chapel, Route 26
LOCDate?Prince George's Chapel, Route 26
1 historic place in Dagsboro
1 place in Dagsboro is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Historic American Buildings Survey Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubbard, Photographer May 1960 FRONT ELEVATION - Prince George's … and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6) and the Library of Congress (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.