National Harbor Of Refuge And Delaware Breakwater Harbor Historic District
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Area | 9834 |
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Added to NRHP | March 27, 1989 |
NRHP Reference Number | 89000289 |
Locations | Delaware Bay |
Cape Henlopen | |
Lewes | |
Delaware | |
Architects | William Strickland |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 2294685 |
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.