cast iron (2nd light) reinforced concrete (3rd light)
Automated
1974
Height
14 m (46 ft)
Shape
conical/cylindrical house with lantern on top (2nd and 3rd lights)
Heritage
National Register of Historic Places listed place
Light
First lit
1914
Focal height
54 feet (16 m) (2nd light) 60 feet (18 m) (3rd light)
Lens
third order Fresnel lens
Range
13 nautical miles (24 km; 15 mi)
Characteristic
10s flash
Brandywine Shoal Lighthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
NRHP reference No.
06000943
NJRHP No.
988[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP
January 8, 2007
Designated NJRHP
August 2, 2006
The Brandywine Shoal Light is a lighthouse on the north side of the ship channel in Delaware Bay on the east coast of the United States, west of Cape May, Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. It was the site of the first screw-pile lighthouse in the United States.
^"New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Cape May County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection – Historic Preservation Office. March 1, 2011. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 28, 2011. Retrieved April 26, 2011.
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initial success, he was shot through the right elbow joint at the Battle of Brandywine on 11 September 1777 in Pennsylvania. Shortly before, he had had the chance...
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