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- Cape_Charles_Light abstract "The current Cape Charles Light is an octagonal 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 55-foot (17 m) 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 150-foot (46 m) masonry tower built further inland. Located a little more than a mile southwest of the old tower and 600 feet from the shoreline, the impressive 150-foot-tall conical brick tower was similar in appearance to the 1857 Cape May Lighthouse, painted white and topped with a dark brown lantern room. In 1892, a twenty-five-foot red band was painted around the white tower’s midsection, about sixty feet up from the base, to make it more visible during the day. By the 1890s, it too was threatened by beach erosion which jetties built to protect it failed to halt, and with the lighthouse now only 300 feet from the ocean and the shoreline eroding at a rate of 37 feet per year it was decided that a third lighthouse needed to be built three quarters of a mile inland. The first proposal for Cape Charles’ third lighthouse called for a conical structure of iron plates, similar in design to the new Cape Henry Lighthouse, but in the end, a bid of $78,200 was accepted to construct 191-foot (58 m) octagonal steel skeletal towers at both Cape Charles and Hog Island, a barrier island twenty miles to the north where another lighthouse was being threatened by shoreline erosion. This design had several advantages: it was much cheaper than the Cape Henry model, less susceptible to punishing winds, and distinct enough the from Cape Henry tower that the two would not be mistaken for each other.The new station’s lens was installed and tested in June 1895, however, its full-time service was delayed until mid-August so mariners could be properly informed of the station’s new light characteristic. Lt. Frederick Mahan of the Lighthouse Board proposed that all U.S. lighthouses be given a “numerical flash” pattern. The first-order lens at Cape Charles made a complete revolution every thirty seconds, producing nine flashes: four quick flashes followed by a dark interval of three seconds, then five more flashes followed by sixteen seconds of darkness. Cape Charles would thus have a 4-5 pattern, and mariners could easily associate these numbers with Cape Charles. This numbering system was likened to a fire alarm bell stroking out the exact numerical identity of a beleaguered building. “By this method,” Mahan maintained, “the light is identified absolutely…” Due to the high cost of these special lenses, only the “4-5” light at Cape Charles, and the “1-4-3” light at Minots Ledge were ever deployed. With a height of 191 feet, the third and final Cape Charles tower is the second tallest lighthouse in the United States. The tower consists of a central iron tube surrounded by eight massive legs. A spiral staircase with 216 treads, enclosed in the tube, leads upwards to the generator room. Ascending seventeen more steps from there, one arrives at the watch room, where the lower gallery may be accessed. The tower is painted white, while the upper rooms are a contrasting black. The lens was removed from the second Cape Charles Lighthouse in October 1895, and on June 1, 1896, the speed of rotation of the lens in the new tower was cut in half as the flashes were being produced in such quick succession that they were indistinct when viewed from a distance. After having served as an observation tower during World War I the second Cape Charles Lighthouse finally toppled into the ocean on July 2, 1927. Both the Cape Charles light and the Hog Island Light were electrified in 1933, completing the electrification of all coastal beacons in the fifth lighthouse district. In 1963 the lighthouse was fully automated and the first order Fresnel Lens was replaced by a more powerful DCB 2-24 aerobeacon. The original lens from the Cape Charles lighthouse is on display at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia. The Cape Charles Lighthouse now houses a modern Vega VRB-25 solar powered beacon.In July 2013, a brush fire broke out on Smith Island and burned down the head keeper’s dwelling, a wood privy, and a storage shed. The two assistant keeper’s dwellings were torn down around 1960, prior to automation of the lighthouse, but the head keeper's house, along with an oil house and generator building, had been sold to a hunting club before being taken over by The Nature Conservancy in 1995.".
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- Cape_Charles_Light height "58.2168".
- Cape_Charles_Light location Cape_Charles_(headland).
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- Cape_Charles_Light wikiPageWikiLink Cape_Charles_(headland).
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- Cape_Charles_Light wikiPageWikiLink Cape_May_Lighthouse.
- Cape_Charles_Light wikiPageWikiLink Category:Buildings_and_structures_in_Northampton_County,_Virginia.
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- Cape_Charles_Light wikiPageWikiLink Chesapeake_Bay.
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- Cape_Charles_Light wikiPageWikiLink Hog_Island_(Virginia).
- Cape_Charles_Light wikiPageWikiLink Hog_Island_Light.
- Cape_Charles_Light wikiPageWikiLink Kiptopeke,_Virginia.
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- Cape_Charles_Light wikiPageWikiLink Mariners_Museum.
- Cape_Charles_Light wikiPageWikiLink Minots_Ledge_Light.
- Cape_Charles_Light wikiPageWikiLink Newport_News,_Virginia.
- Cape_Charles_Light wikiPageWikiLink Outhouse.
- Cape_Charles_Light wikiPageWikiLink Smith_Island,_Virginia.
- Cape_Charles_Light wikiPageWikiLink The_Nature_Conservancy.
- Cape_Charles_Light wikiPageWikiLink VRB-25.
- Cape_Charles_Light wikiPageWikiLink World_War_I.
- Cape_Charles_Light wikiPageWikiLinkText "Cape Charles Light".
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- Cape_Charles_Light automated "1963".
- Cape_Charles_Light caption "Cape Charles Light in 1995".
- Cape_Charles_Light characteristic "5.0".
- Cape_Charles_Light construction "cast iron skeleton tower".
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- Cape_Charles_Light currentlens "Vega VRB-25 solar-powered beacon".
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- Cape_Charles_Light lens "First order Fresnel lens".
- Cape_Charles_Light location "Smith Island off Cape Charles at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay".
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- Cape_Charles_Light marking "lantern and watchroom, black".
- Cape_Charles_Light marking "tower, white".
- Cape_Charles_Light name "Cape Charles Light".
- Cape_Charles_Light pushpin "lighthouse".
- Cape_Charles_Light pushpinMap "Virginia".
- Cape_Charles_Light shape "Octagonal pyramidal skeleton".
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- Cape_Charles_Light yearbuilt "1828".
- Cape_Charles_Light yearlit "1895".
- Cape_Charles_Light subject Category:Buildings_and_structures_in_Northampton_County,_Virginia.
- Cape_Charles_Light subject Category:Lighthouses_completed_in_1828.
- Cape_Charles_Light subject Category:Lighthouses_completed_in_1895.
- Cape_Charles_Light subject Category:Lighthouses_on_the_National_Register_of_Historic_Places_in_Virginia.
- Cape_Charles_Light subject Category:National_Register_of_Historic_Places_in_Northampton_County,_Virginia.
- Cape_Charles_Light subject Category:Towers_completed_in_1828.
- Cape_Charles_Light subject Category:Towers_completed_in_1895.
- Cape_Charles_Light hypernym Lighthouse.
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- Cape_Charles_Light type Lighthouse.
- Cape_Charles_Light type Place.
- Cape_Charles_Light type Tower.
- Cape_Charles_Light type Location.
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- Cape_Charles_Light comment "The current Cape Charles Light is an octagonal 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 55-foot (17 m) 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.".
- Cape_Charles_Light label "Cape Charles Light".
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- Cape_Charles_Light name "Cape Charles Light".