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Mispillion Lighthouse, South bank of Mispillion River at its confluence with Delaware River at northeast end of County Road 203, 7 miles east of Milford, Milford, Sussex County, DE

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Mispillion Lighthouse, South bank of Mispillion River at its confluence with Delaware River at northeast end of County Road 203, 7 miles east of Milford, Milford, Sussex County, DE

description

Summary

Significance: Mispillion Lighthouse is the sole surviving wood-frame lighthouse in Delaware and is one of only three Delaware Bay lighthouses still standing on Delaware soil.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N742
Survey number: HAER DE-23
Building/structure dates: 1873 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1875 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 86002919

date_range

Date

1933 - 1970

person

Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator

Milley, transmitter

Grendell & Paul, photographer

Paul, Michael Johannes, historian

place

Location

Milford, 38.89038, -75.40558

Google Map of 38.8903805, -75.4055795

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Source

Library of Congress

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Link

http://www.loc.gov/

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