Delaware center site is Native American burial ground, opponents say

A Delaware developer’s plan to create a green space and shopping center in Lewes, Delaware, an idyllic shore town that was the site of the first European settlement in the state, has encountered a new obstacle.



After overcoming opposition by some residents to the commercial re-zoning of 11 acres in this town north of Rehobeth Beach, J.G. Townsend Jr. & Co. now must content with protestors who say that its proposed Gills Neck Village Center would desecrate a Native American burial ground.



The NBC-TV affiliate in Philadelphia quoted one protestor as saying that the burial ground, known as the Townsend Site, was listed in the National Historic Register. Sussex County Council president Michael Vincent told the station that, if any trace of a burial site is found, construction won’t be permitted.

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