Cape Fear Light
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Location | North Carolina |
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Year first lit | 1903 |
Construction | steel skeleton |
Tower shape | octagonal |
Height | 184 feet |
Range | 19 miles |
ARLHS number | USA-1028 |
USCG number | |
Cape Fear Lighthouse Complex
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Nearest city | Kure Beach, North Carolina |
Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
Demolished | 1958 |
NRHP Reference # | 78001931[1] |
Added to NRHP | August 29, 1978 |
Cape Fear Lighthouse was a coastal beacon built in 1903, replacing the Bald Head Lighthouse as the main navigation aid for Cape Fear and the Frying Pan Shoals off the coast of the U.S. state of North Carolina. It stood near the cape on Bald Head Island. It was a steel skeleton frame lighthouse, as opposed to the brick lighthouses usually associated with the state. It was painted red and white horizontal stripes: three white and two red and housed a first-order Fresnel lens. It was maintained for most of its lifetime by Capt. Charlie Swan, its lighthouse keeper. On December 5, 1932, first assistant lighthouse keeper, Devaney F. Jennette, died while in the watch tower. He was talking to Capt. Swan at the time. The Cape Fear Lighthouse was demolished in 1958 and replaced by the powerful Oak Island Lighthouse.
The Cape Fear Lighthouse Complex, also known as Cap'n Charlie's Cottages still stands, it consists of a row of three detached light keepers' houses and a supply shed and the piers of another shed. They were constructed in 1903, along with the lighthouse.[2]
The complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]
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