Fire control tower #1, Fenwick Island, DE. Photo by Amy C. Elliott

Fire control towers #3 (foreground) and #4, Dewey Beach, DE. Photo by Amy C. Elliott

Fire control towers #3 (foreground) and #4, Dewey Beach, DE. Photo by Amy C. Elliott

An emergency medivac helicopter lands in front of fire control towers #3 (foreground) and #4, Dewey Beach, DE. Photo by Amy C. Elliott

Fire control tower #3, Dewey Beach, DE. Photo by Amy C. Elliott

Ronald Kyle fishes in the shadows of Fire Control Towers #5 and #6 (l to r), North Rehoboth, DE. Photo by Amy C. Elliott

A visitor points out of one of the slits of Fire Control Tower #7, Cape Henlopen, DE. Tower 7 is the only one open to the public. Photo by Amy C. Elliott

View looking up from inside Fire Control Tower #7, Cape Henlopen, DE. The only tower open to the public. Photo by Amy C. Elliott

Battery 219 (Herring) at Fort Miles, Cape Henlopen, DE. It was supported by Fire Control Towers #2, 4, 6, 9, 13, 14. Photo by Amy C. Elliott