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Newport News Middle Ground Light: Newport News: 1891 [25] 1954 [25] Active VRB-25: 52 ft (16 m) [4] Old Plantation Flats Light: Cape Charles (Offshore) 1886 Never 1962 (Demolished) None 35 ft (11 m) Old Point Comfort Light: Hampton
New Point Comfort Light is a lighthouse in the Virginia portion of the Chesapeake Bay, United States, off the tip of the Middle Peninsula. Finished in 1804, [ 3 ] it is the third-oldest surviving light in the bay, and the tenth-oldest in the United States.
The New Point Comfort Light was built from 1802–1805 and by 1852, it was partially cut off by the sea and formed a new island. In 1904, the New Point Comfort Development Company was formed to build a resort on the peninsula by reclaiming the marsh that separated the lighthouse from the mainland and building beaches.
The restaurant's prices have gone up over the past 70 years. However, it remains one of the most affordable places to eat in town. Most menu items cost less than $10.
"Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Virginia" (PDF). United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Windmill Point Light, from the Chesapeake Chapter of the United States Lighthouse Society; de Gast, Robert (1973). The Lighthouses of the Chesapeake. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 155. ISBN 9780801815485
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A lighthouse tender was put on station to serve as a temporary lightship and a request was put to Congress to appropriate funds for a new lighthouse. LV-46 , assigned to tend the station, suffered a boiler casualty August 28, 1893, killing two of the crew, and was replaced by LV-97 until March 16, 1894, when LV-46 could return to the station.
In April, ahead of SB 478's July 1 start date — but before the new carve-out for restaurants and bars — L&E Oyster Bar and sibling restaurant El Condor rolled their 4% service fees into listed ...