Pages Rock Light

The Pages Rock Light was a lighthouse located in the York River in the Chesapeake Bay.

Pages Rock Light

Undated photograph of Pages Rock Light (USCG)
Location	Southwest of Blundering Point in the York River Northwest of Yorktown, Virginia
Coordinates	37.3109°N 76.5866°W / 37.3109; -76.5866
Tower
Foundation	wood-pile
Construction	cast iron/wood
Automated	1960
Height	43 feet (13 m)
Shape	hexagonal house
Light
First lit	1893
Deactivated	1967
Lens	fourth-order Fresnel lens
Characteristic	white 6 sec flash with red sector

History

This light was constructed in 1893, a late date for a screw-pile structure. The hexagonal house was prefabricated at Lazaretto Point in Baltimore and apparently had an unexciting career before its removal in 1967 as part of the general program of decommissioning screw pile lights in the bay.

References

• "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Virginia" (PDF). United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
• Pages Rock 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. 153.