# Delaware Breakwater

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The **Delaware Breakwater** is a set of [breakwaters](/source/Breakwater_(structure)) east of [Lewes, Delaware](/source/Lewes,_Delaware) on [Cape Henlopen](/source/Cape_Henlopen) that form [Lewes Harbor](/source/Lewes_Harbor). They were listed on the [National Register of Historic Places](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places) on December 12, 1976.

The original 1,700-foot (520-metre) and 2,800-foot (850-metre) breakwaters were built in 1828.[1] The breakwaters are now included in the [National Harbor of Refuge and Delaware Breakwater Harbor Historic District](/source/National_Harbor_of_Refuge_and_Delaware_Breakwater_Harbor_Historic_District).

The stone for the breakwater were quarried from what later became [Bellevue Lake](/source/Bellevue_Lake) in New Castle County.[2] The breakwaters were the first structure of their kind to be built in the Americas.[3]

## See also

[Delaware Breakwater East End Light](/source/Delaware_Breakwater_East_End_Light)

## References

1. ["Memories of Fox Point Historical Marker"](https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=191846). *www.hmdb.org*

1. [*The District; a history of the Philadelphia District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1866-1971*](https://web.archive.org/web/20070824104623/http://www.usace.army.mil/publications////misc/un16/c-3.pdf) (PDF). [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia): [U.S. Army Corps of Engineers](/source/United_States_Army_Corps_of_Engineers). 1974. p. 11. [OCLC 1086353](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1086353). Archived from [the original](http://www.usace.army.mil/publications/misc/un16/c-3.pdf) on 2007-08-24. Retrieved 2008-11-25.

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