Editing Rehoboth Beach, Delaware (section)

=== 20th century ===
[[File:BidenRehobothHome.jpg|thumb|The beach house of U.S. President [[Joe Biden]] and First Lady [[Jill Biden]] in the [[North Shores, Delaware|North Shores]] neighborhood outside the corporate limits of Rehoboth Beach, which serves as their [[List of residences of presidents of the United States#Summer White House|Summer White House]].]]
[[File:RainbowcrossingRehoboth.png|thumb|A [[rainbow crossing]] in Rehoboth Beach, meant to celebrate the [[LGBT]] community.]]
[[File: Rehoboth Beach boardwalk at Delaware Avenue looking north.jpeg|thumb|Rehoboth Beach boardwalk looking north at Delaware Avenue]]
[[File:Rehoboth Beach looking north at Delaware Avenue August 2021.jpeg|thumb|Rehoboth Beach looking north at Delaware Avenue]]

A paved highway was built by the state between [[Georgetown, Delaware|Georgetown]] and Rehoboth Beach in 1925, which helped bring in travelers from the west in the metropolitan areas of [[Washington, D.C.]]; [[Baltimore]]; other parts of [[Maryland]]; and [[Northern Virginia]].<ref name=aboutrehoboth>{{cite web|title=About Rehoboth Beach|publisher=City of Rehoboth Beach|url=https://www.cityofrehoboth.com/visitors/about-rehoboth-beach|access-date=February 6, 2018}}</ref>

From 1942 to 1943, Rehoboth Beach Airport served as a base, designated as Coastal Patrol Base 2, for volunteers with the [[Civil Air Patrol]], who flew aerial patrols using civilian aircraft in support of Army and Navy anti-submarine operations during the [[Battle of the Atlantic]]. Two CAP airmen, Captain Hugh R. Sharp of [[Greenville, Delaware]] and First Lieutenant Edmond Edwards of [[Newark, Delaware]], would go on to be the first civilians to receive the [[Air Medal]] after a search and rescue mission on July 21, 1942, where they rescued one crewmember of another CAP aircraft which crashed at sea.<ref>{{Cite book| last=Blazich | first=Frank A. Jr. | year=2020 | title="An honorable place in American air power": Civil Air Patrol coastal patrol operations, 1942-1943  | publisher=[[Air University Press]] | pages=109–112 | isbn= 9781585663057 | url=https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/AUPress/Books/B_0168_BLAZICH_AN_HONORABLE_PLACE_IN_AMERICAN_AIR_POWER_CIVIL_AIR_PATROL_COSTAL_PATROL_OPERATIONS_1942_1943.PDF | access-date=September 21, 2021 }}</ref>

Rehoboth Beach Airport shut down in 1987 and Rehoboth Shores Estates Community now stands on the former grounds.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.capegazette.com/article/air-war-waged-rehoboth-beach-airport/127167 |title=Air war waged from Rehoboth Beach airport |last=MacArthur |first=Ron |date=3 March 2017 |website=Cape Gazette |access-date=23 September 2021}}</ref> The Delaware Public Archives placed a historical marker on the site of the former airport commemorating Coastal Patrol Base 2 in 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.delaware.gov/historical-markers-map/civil-air-patrol/ |title=Civil Air Patrol – Coastal Patrol Base Two |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=Delaware Public Archives |access-date=23 September 2021}}</ref>