Pages Rock Light

The Pages Rock Light was a lighthouse located in the York River in the Chesapeake Bay.

Pages Rock Light
Undated photograph of Pages Rock Light (USCG)
LocationSouthwest of Blundering Point in the York River Northwest of Yorktown, Virginia
Coordinates37.3109°N 76.5866°W / 37.3109; -76.5866
Tower
Foundationwood-pile
Constructioncast iron/wood
Automated1960
Height43 feet (13 m)
Shapehexagonal house
Light
First lit1893
Deactivated1967
Lensfourth-order Fresnel lens
Characteristicwhite 6 sec flash with red sector

History

This light was constructed in 1893, a late date for a screw-pile structure. The hexagonal house was prefabricated at Lazaretto Point in Baltimore and apparently had an unexciting career before its removal in 1967 as part of the general program of decommissioning screw pile lights in the bay.

References

  • "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Virginia" (PDF). United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
  • Pages Rock Light, from the Chesapeake Chapter of the United States Lighthouse Society
  • de Gast, Robert (1973). The Lighthouses of the Chesapeake. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 153.
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