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Welcome All Friends of Brandywine Shoal Lighthouse!
Brandywine Shoal Lighthouse Friends is the website dedicated to the Restoration, Preservation, and Education of the Public about Brandywine Shoal Lighthouse and the surrounding Maritime Heritage.
As of 2014, access to the interior of Brandwyine Shoal Lighthouse was lost due to a sever Winter storm which damaged the catwalk connecting the dock to the Main Gallery Deck of the Lighthouse.
Since 2015, Brandywine Shoal Lighthouse Friends has been mobilizing the efforts to repair the lighthouse catwalk and restore access to the Aids to Navigation team from the United States Coast Guard. We developed our plan and had funds in place by 2019 to repair the lighthouse Catwalk. We lost a staunch advocate to the organization, Clark Lare in 2019. His loss lead to the loss of other membership.
Then the Global Pandemic happened in 2020 which ground our entire project to a halt. 2022 is the first year we have been able to mobilize any effort to the Lighthouse in a long time. We have a plan and we are awaiting historic preservation approval of that plan in order to implement the new ramp system to re-gain access!
The Brandywine Shoal Lighthouse will eventually be open to the public. We need as much support as possible from anyone who has an interest in this project. Please sign up for email and mail newsletters so that we can keep you informed.
Captain Jeff Stewart, Director Brandywine Shoal Lighthouse
(609)602-0318
