Here’s a photo of a new vertical structure that went up in a neighborhood recently.It might surprise you. Can you tell us who designed this structure? Figure out what this is, and why it was erected where it is. Then send your answers to elliott@brack.net, and tell us what your hometown is.
Allan Peel, San Antonio, Tex. nailed the recent Mystery. “It’s the Harbor of Refuge Lighthouse, located at the mouth of Delaware Bay, north of the tip of Cape Henlopen, Del. Built in 1926, the Harbor of Refuge lighthouse is the third guiding light installed at the end of the nearly 8,000-foot-long 1901 Outer Delaware Breakwater that was built to give passing ships a safe place to harbor during storms. Its breakwater foundation is on shaky ground. Years of increased wave action have gradually deepened the waters around the lighthouse from about 50 feet when it was first built to about 100 or 120 feet now. Then when Superstorm Sandy tore up the Delaware and New Jersey coasts in 2012, it further accelerated the deterioration of the rocks that support the foundation of the Harbor of Refuge Lighthouse.
“The Army Corps of Engineers is using $250,000 from the 2021 Federal Infrastructure, Investment and Jobs Act to pay for a feasibility study, including an engineering analysis of the breakwater and the foundation on which the lighthouse sits, to determine how best to ensure that the breakwater and lighthouse will still provide safe passage for ships coming and going up into and out of the Delaware River.” The photo came from Rick Krause of Lilburn.
Also recognizing the lighthouse was Jay Altman of Columbia, S.C.; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; and Stew Ogilive, Lawrenceville.
SHARE A MYSTERY PHOTO: If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: elliott@brack.net and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
A bee is toiling on this Mexican Sunflower, which Photographer Claire McDaniel of Black Mountain, N.C., who said it was so bright it nearly hurt her eyes. It comes to us via Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill.
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