Year first lit 1877 Foundation screw-pile Tower shape square house Opened 1877 | Deactivated 1955 Construction cast-iron/wood Height 11 m Materials Cast iron, Wood | |
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Location South end of Croatan Sound, North Carolina Similar Roanoke River Light, Roanoke Island Festival P, Wade Point Light, Ocracoke Light, Currituck Beach Light | ||
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Roanoke Marshes Light was a screw-pile lighthouse in North Carolina.
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History
Little is recorded about this light, which was replaced in 1955 with an automated light on a shorter tower. It marks the south entrance to the channel through Croatan Sound, to the east of a marshy shoal extending from the western shore. Ironically this places it in the deepest bottom in the area.
There was a predecessor light on this site, beginning in 1857. The pictured light, of conventional screw-pile construction, was lit in 1877. When the light was decommissioned, an unsuccessful attempt was made by a private party to move it, but the house was lost in the sound.
In 2004, a replica of the light was dedicated at the Roanoke Island Maritime Museum in Manteo, North Carolina.