Reedy Island is a small island in the middle of the channel of the Delaware River near its mouth on the

Delaware Bay Delaware Bay is the estuary outlet of the Delaware River on the northeast seaboard of the United States. It is approximately in area, the bay's freshwater mixes for many miles with the saltwater of the Atlantic Ocean. The bay is bordered inlan ...

in the

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Delaware Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent Del ...

. It is located approximately east of

Port Penn, Delaware Port Penn is a census-designated place located in St. Georges Hundred, southern New Castle County, Delaware, United States, below the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal on the west bank of the Delaware River The Delaware River is a major river i ...

and southwest of

Salem, New Jersey Salem is a city in Salem County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the city's population was 5,146,

. The island was the location of

Reedy Island Range Front Light Reedy may refer to:Roberta Reedy Artifact *Reedy Point Bridge in Delaware People * Chuck Reedy, a former American football player and coach * Edward K. Reedy, a director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute * George Reedy, White House Press Se ...

and the Reedy Island

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. The

Reedy Island Range Rear Light Reedy Island Range Rear Lighthouse is a skeletal tower lighthouse near Taylor's Bridge, Delaware. The tower is an active aid to navigation. History This and several other range lights were built as part of a channel dredging project in the earl ...

, in nearby Taylors Bridge, is a historic

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first established in 1910. The light is operated by the

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. The nearby keeper's house was destroyed by

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in 2002.

External links

National Park Service: Reedy Island Range Rear LightLighthouseFriends.com: Reedy Island Range Rear Light
{{authority control Islands of Delaware Landforms of New Castle County, Delaware Islands of the Delaware River

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