Cape Fear Light, Historic lighthouse on Bald Head Island, United States

Cape Fear Light was a steel octagonal pyramidal skeleton-frame lighthouse built in 1903 on Bald Head Island, North Carolina. It was painted with horizontal red and white stripes—three white and two red—and housed a first-order Fresnel lens made by the Henry-LePaute Company in France. The tower was demolished in 1958, but its concrete foundation blocks and the 1903 keepers' houses, supply shed, and piers of another shed remain.

The tower was built in 1903 to replace an earlier lighthouse that had proven inadequate for guiding ships through the treacherous shoals off the North Carolina coast. It operated for about 55 years before being decommissioned in 1958, when modern navigation technology made it less necessary.

The three keepers' houses, a supply shed and the piers of another shed were built in 1903 together with the tower and are known as Cap'n Charlie's Cottages, after keeper Capt. Charlie Swan, who tended the light for more than half its life. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and is managed by the Bald Head Island Conservancy.

The lighthouse tower no longer stands: it was demolished after 1958, and only its concrete foundation blocks remain near the cape. The three keepers' houses of the Cape Fear Lighthouse Complex, also called Cap'n Charlie's Cottages, still stand on their original site and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The complex is managed by the Bald Head Island Conservancy.

The first-order Fresnel lens, made by Henry-LePaute in France, was handed to the demolition contractor in 1958, an unusual move by the Coast Guard. It reached an antique store in Wilmington, where prisms and glass panels were sold off piece by piece for about 50 years. In 2009 the Old Baldy Foundation recovered what remained and brought it back to Bald Head Island for restoration, and some sold pieces have since been returned.