Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places

Tag: William Penn

  • 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 Twelve Mile Circle, Part I

    Today marks the one-year Anniversary of this website, Twelve Mile Circle. However I’ve yet to explain the actual Twelve Mile Circle behind the name. I promised myself I would do so if I could keep this site active for a year, and I’ve now met that goal. So here goes. As many regular readers already…