Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places

Tag: Fenwick Island

  • Fenwick Island Lighthouse & Transpeninsular Line

    Fenwick Island, Delaware, USA (2008) A lighthouse rose above remote Fenwick Island in 1859.  It filled a critical 60-mile gap between Cape Henlopen and Assateague Island (map). The structure housed a third order Fresnel lens with an 83 foot focal plane in its slender white tower. Amazingly the same Fresnel lens operates today. This stands…

  • The Transpeninsular Line

    I’ve been traveling recently, in fact, I’ve been closer to the Twelve Mile Circle than I’ve been in quite some time. During those travels I was able to stop by the Transpeninsular Line. In this blog I discuss various odd geographic topics that happen to interest me. The Transpeninsular Line is certainly one of those.…