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The Mispillion River is a river flowing to Delaware Bay in southern Delaware in the United States.It is approximately 15 miles (24 km) long and drains an area of 76 square miles (200 km 2) on the Atlantic Coastal Plain.
Mispillion Hundred is a hundred in Kent County, ... Mispillion Hundred was formed in 1682 as one of the original Delaware Hundreds. Its primary community is Harrington.
The original Mispillion Lighthouse was built in 1831. The second Mispillion Lighthouse was a 65-foot (20 m) square wood tower rising from one corner of a two-story Gothic style wood keeper's house and was built in 1873. It served until 1929, when it was deactivated and replaced by a steel skeleton tower that had originally served at Cape Henlopen.
List of rivers in Delaware , grouped by type and sorted by name. Major rivers and creeks (28) ... Mispillion River, Sussex County; Mockingbird Creek, Sussex County;
Slaughter Beach was home to the last wooden frame lighthouse in Delaware, the Mispillion Lighthouse. The lighthouse, which overlooked the Mispillion River and Cedar Creek, was established in 1831 with a 65-foot tower. The lighthouse was on the National Register of Historic Places.
This is a list of all lighthouses in the U.S. state of Delaware as identified by the United States Coast Guard.The first lighthouse in the state was erected in 1769 [1] and the last in 1925 (ignoring automated towers erected later); the oldest active light is the Fenwick Island Light.
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Roughly bounded by Mispillion River, Franklin, Front and Marshall Sts. 38°54′46″N 75°25′24″W / 38.912778°N 75.423333°W / 38.912778; -75.423333 ( Milford Shipyard Area Historic