We are taking a couple days to drive to a destination wedding (Erich & Laura!) in SC, so the first stop is Odessa, DE, considered one of the most pristine colonial townscapes in the country. Established in the 1660s by the Dutch, it was originally called Cantwell's Bridge.
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| Appoquinimink Friends Meeting House (1785, by David Wilson) may be the smallest brick meeting house in the country |
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| It so happened that the caretakers, Pat & Kate O'Donnell, were present and they invited us inside |
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| The stairway to the upper floor, which had a removable panel under the eaves, used to hide enslaved persons heading north, making it a station on the Underground Railroad |
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| Zoar Methodist Episcopal Church (1881, in Gothic Revival style) for the African American community that has always been part of Odessa |
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| Being on the property of the meeting house, we were also given access to the church |
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| The Zoar Church belfry |
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| John Janvier House (1775) at 400 Main Street, belonged to a cabinetmaker and his family |
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| Town Hall (1843, as The Academy, a private school, and later was the town library) at 315 Main Street |
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| Starr-Lorre House (1775, 1790, 1825) at 310 Main Street |
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| Former Red Men Lodge (c 1894) at 307 Main Street |
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| Mailly House (1770, 1937 addition in front) at 300 Main Street |
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| Interesting outbuilding at 300 Main Street |
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| Corbit-Kabis House at 206 Main Street |
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| The 1820 rear section of the Corbit-Kabis House |
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| Former Davis Store (1821, in Federal style) at 205 Main Street |
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| Crouch House (1824, in Italianate style) at 203 Main Street |
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| Former First National Bank of Odessa (1853, by Samuel Sloan in Italianate style) at 201 Main Street |
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| Collins-Sharp House (1700-1725, moved here in 1962) at 110 Second Street, is one of Delaware's oldest structures |
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| The Collins-Sharp House garden features heirloom plants used in the 18C for culinary, medicinal, and decorative purposes |
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| Cantwell's Tavern (1822 as the Brick Hotel, in Federal style) at 109 Main Street |
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| Pump House (c 1780, by William Corbit as housing for his tannery employees) at 116 Main Street |
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| Kent at the water pump |
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| Corbit-Sharp House (c 1774, in Philadelphia Georgian style) at 118 Main Street, is designated as part of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway and the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom of the National Park Service |
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| Corbit-Sharp House Colonial Revival Garden (c 1920s) was designed by H Rodney Sharp with the assistance of the landscape artist Marian Cruger Coffin |
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| Octagonal garden building |
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| Fieldstone stable (c 1812) is unusual in an area known for brick or wooden buildings |
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| Wilson-Warner House (c 1769, in Delaware Georgian style) at 202 Main Street |
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| William Polk House (1846, in Greek Revival style) at 301 High Street |
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| Cyrus Polk House (c 1850, in Greek Revival/ Italianate style) at 303 High Street, post a 2021-fire |
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| Former St Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church (1851-1852, in Greek Revival style) at 506 High Street, now houses the Women's Club of Odessa |
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| Roadside America Attraction: Shark in a Box, which is now a fiberglass replica of a record 840-pound Mako shark caught by Rick Reed off the coast of Delaware in 1989 |
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| The northern section of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (1960-1964, 1999 southbound bridges); the entire length is 17.6 miles |
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| I missed getting the picture of what appears to be the road plunging underwater |
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| Entering the first of two single-bore tunnels; currently there is construction to dualize the tunnels |
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| Looking east, there is blue sky and blue water |
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