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The Cape Henlopen pirate treasure

Delaware · Cape Henlopen / Lewes (Sussex County, DE)
The Cape Henlopen pirate treasure
NASA/Crew of STS-68 · Public domain · source

Documented pirate coast; the buried treasure is the lore

The dunes at the mouth of Delaware Bay were a pirate roost in the early 1700s: Captain Kidd is said to have watered and buried plunder near Cape Henlopen, and the Bay saw enough raiding that Lewes built a fort against it. Treasure has been hunted in these shifting sands for three centuries. The old whaling town of Lewes and the great walking dunes are real; the pirate gold is the legend the sand keeps.

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Cape Henlopen / Lewes (Sussex County, DE)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Henlopen

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