ASSATEAGUE ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE

WILMINGTON MORNING NEWS, MONDAY, 10 JULY 1967

Salisbury , Maryland 10 July 1967.

The Assateague Island Lighthouse, a 110 year old structure, at the southern end

of the primitive barrier reef, off the Maryland & Virginia coast will be opened

next year for a visitors tourist attraction was announced by Worthington

Thompson of the Delmarva Advisory Council .

The old lighthouse, towering 147 feet above sea level sits on a sand dune in

the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge which joins the Assateague National

Seashore of the National Park Service.

Abstract 08/16/18 by Harrison H. from Sussex Bureau, Wilmington Morning

News, Monday, 10 July 1967 for Facebook Lewes to Ocean City page.