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Cape Charles Light : ウィキペディア英語版 | Cape Charles Light
}} The current Cape Charles Light is a steel skeleton tower lighthouse at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay on Smith Island. It is the tallest lighthouse in Virginia and the second tallest in the United States.〔 This particular tower is the third lighthouse at this location. The first lighthouse at Cape Charles was a masonry tower completed in 1828. It was quickly deemed inadequate for its important seacoast location due to its low height and poor visibility at sea. It was soon threatened by erosion so in 1864 it was replaced by a masonry tower built further inland. By the 1890s, it too was threatened by beach erosion which jetties built to protect it failed to halt, so a third lighthouse, a steel skeleton structure was erected in 1895. This tower originally housed a first order Fresnel Lens which was replaced by a more powerful airport beacon in the 1960s. The original lens from the Cape Charles lighthouse is on display at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia. ==Notes==
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