File:DETAIL, NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST SIDES, UPPER PORTION OF TOWER - Mispillion Lighthouse, Beacon Tower, South bank of Mispillion River at it confluence with Delaware River at HAER DEL,3-MILF.V,2A-8.tif

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Boucher, Jack E.

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Milley, transmitter
Massey, James C, historian
Maxwell, Shirley, historian
Price, Virginia B, transmitter
Title
DETAIL, NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST SIDES, UPPER PORTION OF TOWER - Mispillion Lighthouse, Beacon Tower, South bank of Mispillion River at it confluence with Delaware River at northeast end of County Road 203, 7 miles east of Milford, Milford, Sussex County, DE
Depicted place Delaware; Sussex County; Milford
Date 1992
date QS:P571,+1992-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions height: 7 in (17.7 cm); width: 5 in (12.7 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,7U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,5U218593
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER DEL,3-MILF.V,2A-8
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The beacon tower is associated with Mispillion Lighthouse, one of three surviving lighthouses in Delaware, and is an early example of the importance of steel-frame tower construction in providing reliable, unmanned aids to navigation in remote areas.
  • Survey number: HAER DE-23-A
  • Building/structure dates: 1924 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1929 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/de0514.photos.384121p
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
Object location38° 54′ 45″ N, 75° 25′ 41.99″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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