Reedy Island Range Rear Light

Reedy Island Range Rear Light is an active skeletal tower lighthouse near Taylor’s Bridge, Delaware, built to guide ships on the Delaware River approach to Philadelphia after early twentieth-century dredging and realignment created a more complex channel south of Reedy Island. As older ranges were shifted and renamed, this route was first marked by temporary lights, including a locomotive headlight on a tall pole shown in 1904. Funding delays postponed the permanent tower until 1908. Originally equipped with a fifth-order Fresnel lens and later an aerobeacon, the station was eventually automated. Still operating, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Delaware · United States