Hog Island Light photograph

Hog Island Light

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Opened 1896
Range30,578 m
Construction Cast iron
FunctionLighthouse
Original lens(first) fourth-order Fresnel Lens; first-order Fresnel Lens (second)
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID2143352
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About Hog Island Light


The Hog Island Light was a lighthouse roughly marking its eponymous island, and thus the north side of the Great Machipongo Inlet on the Virginia coast. Originally, no light existed between Cape Henlopen, Delaware and Cape Charles, Virginia.

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