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Photographer: Lighthouses Marker
Caption: Lighthouses Marker
Additional Description: Construction began on the existing Delaware Breakwater East End Lighthouse in 1885 with the pouring of a concrete foundation. A temporary wooden light tower was erected and topped with the iron lantern room, light, and lens that would eventually be moved to the new iron tower. The original conical Fresnel lens is still in the lighthouse. The lighthouse was manned until 1950 when it was automated. It was deactivated in 1996 and eventually turned over to the State of Delaware.
Submitted: November 29, 2010, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p138538
File Size: 0.157 Megabytes

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