The Wade Point Light was a screw-pile lighthouse in North Carolina.
Location | Entrance to Pasquotank River, North Carolina |
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Tower | |
Foundation | screw-pile |
Construction | cast-iron/wood |
Height | 39 feet (12 m) |
Shape | square house |
Light | |
First lit | 1855 |
Lens | fourth-order Fresnel lens |
Characteristic | fixed white |
History
editLightship "M" was stationed at the mouth of the Pasquotank River off Albemarle Sound beginning in 1826. In 1855 it was replaced by a square screw-pile structure . This structure was eventually removed and replaced with the Pasquotank River Entrance Light, an automated tower about two miles NNE of the previous light.
References
edit- "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: North Carolina". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-09-23. Retrieved 2008-10-07.
- Light List, Volume II, Atlantic Coast, Shrewsbury River, New Jersey to Little River, South Carolina (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2007. p. 297.
- "U.S. Lightship Station Assignments". United States Coast Guard. Retrieved 2008-10-07.