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Ocean View Historical Society (Historic Village in Ocean View)

The Historic Village in Ocean View is a working project, under the auspices of the Ocean View Historical Society. We are committed to advancing the knowledge and understanding of past and present peoples’ everyday life in southeast Sussex County for our communities’ residents and visitors.

$3,430 raised from 31 donors

$3,500 goal

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History wants to be remembered and the Historic Village in Ocean View is helping to bring it alive.

About Ocean View Historical Society (Historic Village in Ocean View)

Mission: The Historic Village in Ocean View is a working project, under the auspices of the Ocean View Historical Society. We are committed to advancing the knowledge and understanding of past and present peoples’ everyday life in southeast Sussex County for our communities’ residents and visitors.

Having an historic village so near the beach offers residents and visitors, young and older,  a chance to see and feel the history through the eyes of the surfmen, watermen, farmers, women and men who were able to sustain their lives and improve the lives of their families throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

Currently, we have a period-furnished 1860's house, an 1889 post office run by one of the  first postwomen in Delaware, a replica of the 1923 chicken house where the broiler chicken industry began by Mrs. Cecile Steele, Hall's Store (as Ocean View was once called) which has a replica 1820s general store and a large meeting room, and a 1901 Gothic Victorian house which is now the Coastal Towns Museum.

Our 1889 Post Office

Recent donors

  • Leanne Reese
    $50
  • Jeanne Mueller
    $50
  • Phil Shockley
    $20
  • Martha Gallagher
    $25
  • Kathy Green
  • Donna Swain
    $25
  • Phil Shockley
    $30
  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous
  • Donna Swain
    $50