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Managing Organization:
Delaware River & Bay Lighthouse Foundation, Inc.
Website: http://www.delawarebaylights.org
Email:
Notes:
This tower was originally built as the Penn Range Rear Light and was relocated in 1906. The Delaware River & Bay Lighthouse Foundation signed a 30-year lease with the Coast Guard for this lighthouse in May 2004.
Tower Height: 127
Height of Focal Plane: 176
Characteristic and Range: Fixed white.
Description of Tower: Black, iron hexagonal pyramidal skeletal tower with central cylinder.
This light is operational
Date Established: 1906
Date Present Tower Built: 1877
Tower Moved?
1906
Date Automated: 1976
Optics: 1906: Second order Fresnel lens.
Current Use: Active aid to navigation.
Open To Public? No.
Directions:
Located along the Delaware River near Route 2 in Fort Penn, about two miles east of U.S. Route 13.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Keepers: Harry Spencer (1915-1927)
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