Sapelo Island Light
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| Sapelo Island Light | |
  Sapelo Island Light | |
| Location | Darien, Georgia |
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| Coordinates | 31°23′31″N 81°17′07″W / 31.392°N 81.2852°WCoordinates: 31°23′31″N 81°17′07″W / 31.392°N 81.2852°W |
| Year first constructed | 1820 |
| Year first lit | 1820 |
| Deactivated | 1905 to 1998 |
| Construction | Brick |
| Tower shape | Conical |
| Markings / pattern | 6 alternate red and white horizontal |
| Height | 80 ft (24 m) |
| Original lens | Lewis lamp (1820) Fourth order Fresnel lens (1854) |
| Characteristic | Fixed white varied by a white flash every 45 s |
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Sapelo Island Lighthouse | |
| Location | S end of Sapelo Island, S of University of Georgia Marine Institute, Sapelo Island, Georgia |
| Area | 205.9 acres (83.3 ha) |
| Built | 1905 |
| Governing body | State |
| NRHP Reference # | 97000335[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 26, 1997 |
Sapelo Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Georgia, United States, near the southern tip of Sapelo Island, Georgia. It is the nation's second-oldest brick lighthouse and the oldest survivor of Winslow Lewis lighthouse projects.
History
Sapelo Island Lighthouse was built in 1820. It was designed and built by Winslow Lewis. It had a fifteen Lewis lamps with 16 in (41 cm) reflectors. In the 1850s, the tower was raised by 10 ft (3.0 m) and a fourth-order Fresnel lens was installed in 1854. During the Civil War, the lens was removed. It was extensively repaired after an 1867 storm and relit in 1868. The tower was damaged by a hurricane in 1898.
The lighthouse was replaced in 1905 by the a pyramidal 100 ft (30 m) skeletal tower with a third-order Fresnel lens. This tower was dismantled and relocated in 1934 to South Fox Island, Michigan.
Sapelo Island Lighthouse was inactive from 1905 to 1998, and is now privately maintained and unofficial. The original lighthouse was renovated to its 1890 appearance in 1998 when it was relit.[2][3][4]
References
- ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
- ↑ "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Georgia". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
- ↑ Roberts, Bruce; Jones, Ray (2002). Southern Lighthouses: Outer Banks to Cape Florida (3 ed.). Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press. p. 57. ISBN 0-7627-1243-0.
- ↑ "Sapelo Island Lighthouse, Georgia at Lighthousefriends.com".
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