Dodds Corner
Serving Lewes with a general store and its harbor
as ship chandlers, the Dodd family occupied this
site from the latter part of the 18th Century until
it was acquired in 1929 by Benjamin Ableman of
Georgetown from one Joseph Frank Dodd, the
last remaining member of the family.
Benjamin's sons, Percival J. and S. Bernard Ableman,
restored the building in 1985, carefully preserving
the original architecture. At the end of the 19th
Century a member of the Dodd family practiced
medicine here, and a section of concrete walk
inscribed "Dr. Dodd" remains at the old Northeast
corner entrance.
Upon completion of the restoration, the Ablemans
renamed the property "Dodds Corner," the
description that appears in the early deeds.
Marker is on 2nd street, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
