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Cape Henry
State: VA
Year established: 1792
Latitude: 36 deg 55
min 33 sec N
Longitude: 76 deg 0
min 29 sec W
Height above sea level: 164 feet Original construction:
90-foot brick-lined sandstone tower Rebuilds:
 1881: first tower deactivated, replaced with present 163-foot tall octagonal pyramidal tower; cast-iron plate on masonry, with upper and lower half of each face alternately black and white
Status:
automated in 1984; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
white Morse code "U" [two short, one long flash] every 20 seconds visible for 17 nautical miles, and red sector visible for 15 nautical miles
Notes:
the oldest lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay and the third oldest lighthouse still standing in the US
More information:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/capehenr.htm
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHVA.html
http://www.cheslights.org/heritage/henry-old.htm
Turbyville, Linda, Bay Beacons - Lighthouses of the Chesapeake Bay, (Annapolis, MD: Eastwind Publishing, 1995), pp.118-125
U.S. Department of Homeland Security / United States Coast Guard, Light List, Volume 2 Atlantic Coast, Shrewsbury River, New Jersey to
Little River, South Carolina, (Washington, DC: GPO, 2004), p. 4
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