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Cape Henry Lighthouses. The Cape Henry Lighthouses are a pair of lighthouses at Cape Henry, the landform marking the southern entrance to Chesapeake Bay in the U.S. state of Virginia. The location has long been important for the large amount of ocean-going shipping traffic for the harbors, its rivers, and shipping headed to ports on the bay.
Cape Henry. Cape Henry is a cape on the Atlantic shore of Virginia located in the northeast corner of Virginia Beach. It is the southern boundary of the entrance to the long estuary of the Chesapeake Bay. Across the mouth of the bay to the north is Cape Charles the opposite point of the Bay's gateway. Named for two sons of King James I of ...
Location: 16 mi east of Cape Henry, Virginia: Coordinates: 1]: Tower; Foundation: Four black piles: Construction: prefabricated modules: Automated: 1980: Height: 120 feet (37 m): Shape: White square platform with blue tower at one corner: Fog signal: HORN: 1 blast ev 10s (1s bl): Racon: N (– •): Light; First lit: 1965: Deactivated: 2016 [2]: Focal height: 117 feet (36 m): Range: 19 miles ...
Added to NRHP. June 23, 2003. Designated VLR. December 4, 2002 [2] Cape Charles Lighthouse is an octagonal cast iron skeleton tower lighthouse at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay on Smith Island which was officially removed from service in 2019. [3][4][5][6] It is the tallest lighthouse in Virginia and the second tallest in the United States. [5 ...
Elzy Burroughs (1771/77–1825) was an American stonemason, engineer, lighthouse builder and keeper. Elzy Burroughs was born and raised in Stafford County, Virginia. Elzy Burroughs' family leased and operated a sandstone quarry in the Aquia Creek area of Stafford County. Known as Aquia sandstone, material from quarries in this area was utilized ...
On December 1, 1875, the Currituck Beach Light was completed, located between Cape Henry Light and Bodie Island. Unlike its fellows, Currituck Beach Light was not painted, leaving its brick facade visible. In 1939, the lighthouse was automated following a merger of the United States Coast Guard with the Bureau of Lighthouses.
blast every 60s. Light. Focal height. 96 metres (315 ft) Range. 16 nautical miles (30 km; 18 mi) Characteristic. Fl W 5s. Cape Pine Light was built on Cape Pine, Newfoundland by the British architect and engineer Alexander Gordon in 1851.
Deactivated. 1996. Focal height. 60.5 feet (18.4 m) Lens. Fourth-order Fresnel Lens. Characteristic. current decorative light. The Delaware Breakwater East End Light is a lighthouse located on the inner Delaware Breakwater in the Delaware Bay, just off the coast of Cape Henlopen and the town of Lewes, Delaware.