Roger,

I guess I was lucky since the road and entrance way to Finn's Point National Cemetery doesn't have any gates to close, at least none I saw. On the other hand, Fort Mott State Park was closed to the extent that the drop-down barriers were blocking the entrance to the parking areas. As I walked around and climbed up on the gun emplacements and the mortar battery I saw a park ranger following a couple cars out that snuck into the parking lot around the barriers. One road in had no gate and that's the one I entered after finding the other paths closed and that's also the road that ended up going to the cemetery. You can see my car parked on the outside of a fence in the third photo from the bottom.

I did see the lighthouse you posted in the picture. I love lighthouses so it caught my eye. But I didn't get close to it since it looked like the road in to it was private with what looked like a private house near it (a much newer house than in your pic above). The lighthouse is actually quite a way inland from the State Park area and cemetery. This satellite view shows "A" where the lighthouse is and you can see it's on the road inland from the other areas. Maybe many years ago the typical Delaware River flood plain was inland some of the time so they built the lighthouse 3/4 mile inland? Or it could have been moved, not sure but I'll research that point. I know some other lighthouses I've visited in the NJ-Del-Mar-Va area have been moved for various reasons.



Another oddity I was reminded of as I did "post visit research" was the Delaware - New Jersey state border line. You can see part of it marked on the pic above north of the cemetery. I think in most cases I've seen, when a river is the dividing line between two states, the border line (another Willie Nelson reminder!) is down the center of the river. But the story I recall here is that back in the earliest formative years of the Union, the soon-to-be State of Delaware negotiated to have the entire Delaware River between this part of Delaware and NJ to be within Delaware, up to the high tide line on that side of the river. Strangely enough to me, it now seems there is a strip of Delaware along the river on the New Jersey side. This came up again a couple years ago when Delaware and New Jersey were arguing about the finer points of dredging the river and then Delaware pulled this ace out of their sleeve and advised the less-knowledgeable politicians and Delaware River Commission that they had sole rights to call the shots since it was all intra-state.