National Harbor of Refuge and Delaware Breakwater Harbor Historic District photograph

National Harbor Of Refuge And Delaware Breakwater Harbor Historic District

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Area9834
Added to NRHPMarch 27, 1989
NRHP Reference Number89000289
Locations Delaware Bay
Cape Henlopen
Lewes
Delaware
Architects William Strickland
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID2294685
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About National Harbor Of Refuge And Delaware Breakwater Harbor Historic District


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.

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