The Zwaandendael Museum in Lewes, Delaware commemorates the first attempt at a permanent European settlement in 1631. The ...

Ethel, her granddaughter wrote to me, was a young Black woman who was sent to Delaware Colony for the Feeble Minded, now known as Stockley Center. Ethel was sterilized and died shortly after.

In August of 1930, Ethel Benson was institutionalized into the Delaware Colony for the Feeble Minded and never returned home. She was about 20 years old, Black and illiterate.

The colony lasted for about a year ... Current exhibits feature history on the segregated Delaware beaches of the Jim Crow era and various artifacts from local shipwrecks and small businesses ...