Bellevue Rear Range Lighthouse

Year Built

1909

Cost

$40,000

Type

Triangular pyramidal skeletal tower with balcony and light (current)

Height

93 fet

Location

Wilmington

Automated Year

1934

First Lit

1909

Lens Type

Fourth order Fresnel lens

Fog Signal

None

Year Deactivated

2001

Color

Black

Last Keeper - Date

William H. Johnson (1919 – 1938)

Description

The Bellevue Range Rear Light is not open to the public.

Brief History

•  In a newspaper article in 1929, Keeper Johnson was quoted as saying he had seen only one wreck in the decade he had been at the station.
•  Bellevue Range was automated around 1934.
•   After having been vandalized and relegated to a place for carousing, Christiana Lighthouse was razed in 1939.
•  Bellevue Range Rear Light Station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
•  In April 2007, Bellevue Rear Range Lighthouse, deemed excess by the Coast Guard, was offered at no cost to eligible entities.