National Harbor of Refuge and Delaware Breakwater Harbor Historic District
National Harbor of Refuge and Delaware Breakwater Harbor Historic District | |
| Location | Mouth of Delaware Bay at Cape Henlopen, Lewes, Delaware |
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| Coordinates | 38°47′59″N 75°6′27″W / 38.79972°N 75.10750°W |
| Architect | Strickland, William |
| NRHP reference No. | 89000289 |
| Added to NRHP | March 27, 1989 |
The National Harbor of Refuge and Delaware Breakwater Historic District encompasses a series of seacoast breakwaters behind Cape Henlopen, Delaware, built between 1828 and 1898 to establish a shipping haven on a coastline that lacked safe harbors. The Harbor of Refuge is at the mouth of the Delaware Bay estuary where it opens into the Atlantic Ocean, at Lewes.
The district is almost entirely offshore, touching land only at the former United States Coast Guard station. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.