For a number of years in
the 1980s Rep. Carroll Cordrey pushed for a 1.9 million dollar tourist center
to build in Delmar. By 1985 the dream
had been reduced to a $50,000 rest stop with picnic tables and a couple
portable restrooms. Built about two
miles north of Delmar in a wooded section, it gave travelers a chance to pull
off the road, refresh themselves, let the kids run for bit, and maybe car pools
would park their car there.
As is often said “no
good deed should go unpunished” and so it was with the Delmar rest stop. Within a couple of years it was being used for
drug deals, sex solicitation, homosexual men would park and hang out waiting
for a pickup, the wooded area was being used for public sex. The Delaware State Police were often called
to it.
About 1993 a fence was
put up to the entranceway and the rest stop was closed.
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