Mispillion Light
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| Location: | Mispillion River, Delaware |
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| Foundation: | Natural |
| Construction: | Wood Frame |
| Year first lit: | 1873 |
| Year first constructed: | 1831 |
| Deactivated: | 1929 |
| Automated: | 1926 |
| Tower shape: | Square |
| Height: | 65 ft |
| Original lens: | Sixth order Fresnel lens |
| Current lens: | Removed |
| Characteristic: | Flashing white every 3 seconds, flash duration 0.3 seconds, with a red sector from 301° to 308° |
Mispillion Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Delaware, United States, on the Mispillion River near the Delaware Bay, Delaware
[edit] History
The original Mispillion Lighthouse was built in 1831. The second Mispillion Lighthouse was a 65 ft square cylindrical wood tower rising from one corner of a 2 story gothic style wood keeper's house and was built in 1873. It served until 1929 when it was deactivated and replaced by a steel skeleton tower that had originally served at Cape Henlopen. The lighthouse was demolished in 2002, after a fire destroyed most of the tower portion of the lighthouse. The steel skeletal tower remains at the location but is not active or open to the public.
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