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Sapelo Island Light

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Location
  
Year first lit
  
1820

Tower shape
  
Conical

Opened
  
1820

Material
  
Architect
  
Year first constructed
  
1820

Deactivated
  
1905 to 1998

Height
  
24 m

Construction
  
Brick

Added to NRHP
  
26 August 1997

Sapelo Island Light

Markings / pattern
  
6 alternate red and white horizontal

Address
  
Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve, Sapelo Island Wildlife Management Area, Sapelo Island, GA 31327, USA

Similar
  
Little Cumberland Island Light, Sapelo Island Range Fr, Old Harbor Light, Cockspur Island Light, St Simons Island Light

Sapelo island light house


Sapelo Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Georgia, United States, near the southern tip of Sapelo Island. It is the nation's second-oldest brick lighthouse and the oldest survivor among lighthouses designed by Winslow Lewis. The lighthouse, oil building, the cistern, the footing of the 1905 light, the ruins of the fortification, and the associated range light were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

Contents

The lighthouse is a 65 feet (20 m) brick structure, about 30 feet (9.1 m) in diameter at the base and 12 feet (3.7 m) at the top. Its brick walls are several feet thick at the bottom, tapering to about two feet thick at the top.

Sapelo island light house


History

Sapelo Island Lighthouse was built in 1820. It was designed and built by Winslow Lewis. It had 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. The lens was removed during the Civil War. It was extensively repaired after an 1867 storm and relit in 1868. The tower was damaged by a strong hurricane in 1898.

A pyramidal 100 ft (30 m) skeletal tower lighthouse with a third-order Fresnel lens was built in 1905. This tower was dismantled and relocated in 1934 to South Fox Island, Michigan.

The 1820 lighthouse was inactive from 1905 to 1998, when it was restored to its 1890 appearance and was relit (with a modern light and lens). Is now maintained by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and is unofficial.

References

Sapelo Island Light Wikipedia


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