National Harbor of Refuge and Delaware Breakwater Harbor Historic District

National Harbor of Refuge and Delaware Breakwater Harbor Historic District - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

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. The Harbor of Refuge is at the mouth of the Delaware Bay estuary where it opens into the Atlantic Ocean, at Lewes. Read more on Wikipedia

type: NRHP
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Source: en.wikipedia.org