Wade Point Light

Infobox_Lighthouse


caption = Wade Point Light (USCG)
location = Entrance to Pasquotank River, North Carolina
coordinates =
yearbuilt =
yearlit = 1855
automated =
yeardeactivated =
foundation = screw-pile
construction = cast-iron/wood
shape = square house
marking =
height = 39 ft
elevation =
lens = fourth-order Fresnel lens
currentlens =
intensity =
range =
characteristic = fixed white

Wade Point Light was a screw-pile lighthouse in North Carolina.

History

Lightship "M" was stationed at the mouth of the Pasquotank River off Albemarle Sound beginning in 1826. In 1855 it was replaced by a square screw-pile structure . This structure was eventually removed and replaced with the Pasquotank River Entrance Light, an automated tower about two miles NNE of the previous light.

References

*cite web
url=http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblighthouses/LHNC.asp
title = Historic Light Station Information & Photography: North Carolina
publisher=United States Coast Guard
accessdate=2008-10-07
*cite book
title=List List: Volume II: Atlantic Coast: Shrewsbury River, New Jersey to Little River, South Carolina
url=http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pubs/LightLists/V2COMPLETE.pdf
publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office
location=Washington, DC
date=2007
isbn=0-16-072985-8
pages=297
accessdate=2008-10-07
*cite web
url=http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblightships/Lightship_Station_Index.asp
title=U.S. Lightship Station Assignments
publisher=United States Coast Guard
accessdate=2008-10-07