**Cape Henlopen & the Delaware Breakwater 1883** This 1883 U.S. Coast Survey chart documents Delaware's Cape Henlopen and the strategic breakwater constructed to protect Lewes Harbor from Atlantic storms. The survey captures the engineered breakwater's precise positioning alongside detailed soundings of the treacherous shoals that had claimed countless vessels approaching Delaware Bay. Rendered with the Coast Survey's characteristic precision in copper plate engraving and fine lithographic detail.