Mouth of Delaware Bay at Cape Henlopen, Lewes, Delaware. County/parish: Sussex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 27, 1989. NRIS 89000289.
1 contributing building. 1 contributing site. 15 contributing structures.Also known as:
The National Harbor of Refuge and Delaware Breakwater Historic District encompasses a series of seacoast breakwaters behind Cape Henlopen, Delaware, built between 1828 and 1898 to establish a shipping haven on a coastline that lacked safe harbors. The Harbor of Refuge is at the mouth of the Delaware Bay estuary where it opens into the Atlantic Ocean, at Lewes.
The district is almost entirely offshore, touching land only at the former United States Coast Guard station. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75324786