A huge industrial reel once used for the menhaden fishing industry sits on the Lewes Historical Society grounds. The machine-like spool is a tangible remnant of the massive nets and processing operations that once defined part of the town's waterfront economy.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: archives.delaware.gov/delaware-historical-markers/menhaden-fishing-industry/