Greenville and Henlopen Acres are the two richest places in Delaware, all but tied for highest personal incomes, averaging over $ 80, 000 per annum.

Henlopen Acres is a municipality north of Rehoboth Beach in Sussex County, Delaware, United States, and is the third smallest incorporated town in Delaware.

Henlopen Acres is located at ( 38. 725312 ,-75. 083935 ).

An unincorporated neighborhood called North Shores separates the northernmost part of Henlopen Acres from the southern boundary of Cape Henlopen State Park.

Henlopen Acres is divided into 216 parcels of land, on which are 205 homes, the town hall and maintenance area, the town's marina, the Henlopen Acres Beach Club, Block W Beach, and the Rehoboth Art League.

The municipal government of Henlopen Acres consists of seven elected officials who serve on the town's council, one of whom serves as mayor.

Henlopen Acres has no police department, but town-owned private security began in 1996.

Henlopen Acres shares the services and expense of this security service with the unincorporated neighborhood of North Shores to its north.

The security service, which patrols all of Henlopen Acres and North Shores, operates two vehicles.

The Rehoboth Beach Fire Department serves Henlopen Acres.

Henlopen Acres ' municipal government generally maintains amicable relations with the government of Rehoboth Beach, follows Sussex County's lead on how to react to emergencies such as major storms and whether or not to evacuate in the face of them.

Within Henlopen Acres governmental affairs generally have run smoothly.

Only about one-third of the homes in Henlopen Acres are lived in year-round ; the rest are vacation homes or rental properties.

In 2000, the least expensive home was valued at $ 325, 000 for real estate tax purposes and the value of all the land in Henlopen Acres was estimated at over $ 100 million.

Evidence of Native American activity prior to the arrival of Europeans has been found in Henlopen Acres.

" Corkran's development was incorporated in 1970 as the town of Henlopen Acres.

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The state takes its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and Virginia's first colonial governor, after whom what is now called Cape Henlopen was originally named.

The members of the expedition, aboard the ships Fogel Grip and Kalmar Nyckel, sailed into Delaware Bay, which lay within the territory claimed by the Dutch, passing Cape May and Cape Henlopen in late March 1638, and anchored at a rocky point on the Minquas Kill that is known today as Swedes ' Landing on March 29, 1638.

Although the Dutch and Swedes returned to resettle the Delaware River region as early as 1638, much of the Delaware Bay area south of what is today the city of Newcastle remained unsettled until 1662, when a grant of land at the Hoernkills ( the area around Cape Henlopen, near the current town of Lewes ) was made by the city of Amsterdam to a party of Mennonites.

The name " Henlopen " probably is derived from that of Thijmen Jacobsz Hinlopen ( 1572 – 1637 ), a merchant in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Cape Henlopen State Park is a Delaware state park on on Cape Henlopen in Sussex County, Delaware, in the United States.

The beach at Cape Henlopen State Park is open year round.

Cape Henlopen State Park is a popular fishing destination.

Cape Henlopen State Park is a terminus of the American Discovery Trail, which is the only transcontinental trail in the United States.

Cape Henlopen, the fourth vessel of the fleet in terms of original construction date, is the other " small " vessel, along with the M. V.

Cape Henlopen is the southern cape of the Delaware Bay along the Atlantic coast of the United States.

Originally spelled Cape Hinlopen, Cape Henlopen is named after Thijmen Jacobsz Hinlopen who was a prominent Dutch trader.

Cape Henlopen State Park is a 5, 193 acre ( 21 km² ) Delaware state park on Cape Henlopen in Sussex County, Delaware, in the United States.

Twenty-four miles north is another cape named Cape Henlopen near Lewes, Delaware.

Smith originally housed the two 16 " guns, and is now in use by Cape Henlopen State Park for storage.

Cape Hinlopen, now spelled Cape Henlopen in Delaware is named after the former.

Fort Miles was an American military installation located on Cape Henlopen near Lewes, Delaware.

Cape Henlopen State Park has two facilities that are rented out for large group gatherings, a pavilion for picnics and the " Officer's Club " a remnant of the Fort Miles days.

The pine covered dunes of Cape Henlopen State Park are open to camping in some areas with over 150 campsite available.

The following state parks are within of Cape Henlopen State Park:

The pair of Delaware Capes that denote the outermost boundary of the Bay with the Atlantic are Cape Henlopen and Cape May.

She directed boundaries to be set and to reach Cape Henlopen north along the west side of Godyn's Bay ( Delaware Bay ), up the South River ( Delaware River ), past Minquas Kill ( Christina River ), to Sankikans ( Trenton Falls ).

In the first half of 1613, Cornelius Jacobsen Mey, a Dutch navigator, discovered and named both Cape May, New Jersey and Cape Henlopen, ( originally Hindlopen ) in the Delaware Bay.

# American Discovery Trail-from Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware westward to Point Reyes National Seashore, California

Cape Henlopen, on Delaware Bay, has long been a public use area although it did not officially become a Delaware state park until 1964.

William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania and early leader of Delaware, decreed that Cape Henlopen and its natural resources be set aside for the use and enjoyment of the citizens of the Delaware Colony.

* Cape Henlopen spit: A late Holocene sand accretion complex at the mouth of Delaware Bay, Delaware

In 1782 during the American Revolutionary War, the young Continental Navy Lieutenant Joshua Barney fought with a British squadron near Cape Henlopen at the Battle of Delaware Bay.