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Monday, February 26, 2018
The Traveler Motel / Sunset Motel
Originally built in 1959 on 7 acres of land next to the Maryland Delaware State Line by Mary "Mom" Kerekesh as the Sunset Motel. Mary had owned a motel on the Old RT13/Delmar road prior to this also called the Sunset Motel. Mary death in 1963 had her estate put the motel up for sale for $60,000. The property had a string of owners operators over the next 20 years and it changed name to The Traveler Motel. Some of the people who have operated it are; Clifford Abbott, Lawrence Hancock. Wayne L. Phillips, Harry Allen Banks and finally in 1979 Gambhirsinh C. Chudasama. The property today is older but kept up and does more long term rentals then over night stays.
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