Wade Point Light

Wade Point Light
Wade Point Light (USCG)
Location	Entrance to Pasquotank River, North Carolina
Year first lit	1855
Foundation	screw-pile
Construction	cast-iron/wood
Tower shape	square house
Height	39 feet (12 m)
Original lens	fourth-order Fresnel lens
Characteristic	fixed white

The 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

"Historic Light Station Information and Photography: North Carolina". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Retrieved 2008-10-07.
Light List, Volume II, Atlantic Coast, Shrewsbury River, New Jersey to Little River, South Carolina (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2007. p. 297.
"U.S. Lightship Station Assignments". United States Coast Guard. Retrieved 2008-10-07.

Lighthouses of North Carolina

Active	Bodie Island Light Cape Hatteras Light Cape Lookout Light Currituck Beach Light Oak Island Light Ocracoke Light

Deactivated / Dismantled / Decommissioned	Bald Head Light Campbell Island Light Cape Fear Light Diamond Shoal Light Federal Point Light Frying Pan Shoals Light Hatteras Beacon Price Creek Light Roanoke Marshes Light Roanoke River Light Wade Point Light

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