MISSPILLION LIGHTHOUSE
REPLICA
LEWES SHIPCARPENTER SQUARE
John and Sally Freeman
settled on a lot in Shipcarpenter Square on May 2, 2002, the same
day that lighting set fire
to the Mispillion Lighthouse in Cedar Creek Hundred.
The Freemans offered to
buy the charred remains for a restoration project on their
new
lot in Shipcarpenter
Square, Lewes. These remains were moved to the Lewes lot
in
May 2004.
Derrick Dutton was hired
as the project manager of the restoration project. Dutton, in
turn contracted with
Mike Reilly of A – Z Service in Baltimore to fabricate
the
lantern and metal assembly
which was lost in the fire.
July 14, 2005, the new
lantern and crows nest balcony was hoisted atop John and Sally's
historically accurate
replica of the former Mispillion Lighthouse.
The plans were obtained
from drawings made for the National Historic Registry in 1986.
Today a curious historian
can travel to Shipcarpenter Square in Lewes to view the exact
replica of the old
Mispillion Light and keepers house thanks to the Freemans and their
valiant
efforts to save the
burned structure.
Abstract: July 17, 2018,
By Harrison H from the papers of Dave Kenton, Chairman,
Milford Museum, 2006
titled “ Cedar Neck, Slaughter Beach & Mispllion
Lighthouse”.
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