page_title: Lewes, Delaware
section_title: Lighthouses
hierarchical_section_title: Lewes, Delaware / Arts and culture / Lighthouses
caption_attribution_description: English: Lighthouse in the National Harbor of Refuge
context_page_description: Lewes is an incorporated city on the Delaware Bay in eastern Sussex County, Delaware. According to the 2010 census, the population is 2,747. Along with neighboring Rehoboth Beach, Lewes is one of the principal cities of Delaware's rapidly growing Cape Region. The city lies within the Salisbury, Maryland–Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. Lewes proudly claims to be "The First Town in The First State."
context_section_description: United States Lightship Overfalls (LV-118/WAL-539), one of nine surviving lightships at museums in the United States, is moored in Lewes along the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal
  Lewes is home to several iconic Lighthouses in the Delaware Bay. Just offshore lies the National Harbor of Refuge which is home to the Delaware Breakwater East End Light and the Harbor of Refuge Light.
caption: Lighthouse in the National Harbor of Refuge
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