Dames Point Light

Dames Point Light
Location	on the shoals off; Dames Point; St. Johns River; Florida; United States
Coordinates	30°23′00″N 81°33′16″W / 30.38333°N 81.55444°W
Tower
Foundation	wooden piles with cast-iron sleeves
Construction	wooden tower
Shape	square tower atop keeper's house
Markings	white building, red piles
Light
First lit	1857 (lightship); 1872 (lighthouse)
Deactivated	1893
Focal height	35 feet (11 m)
Lens	Fifth-Order Fresnel lens
Range	9.6 nautical miles; 18 kilometres (11 mi)
Characteristic	F W

The Dames Point Light marked an 8-foot-deep (2.4 m) shoal at a sharp bend in the St. Johns River in Florida that was a danger to ships heading to or from Jacksonville.

^ ^a ^b ^c Office of the Lighthouse Board, "List of Lights of the Atlantic and the Gulf Coast of the United States, 1893", pp.100-101. Washington Government Printing Office, 1893.

[list93-1] Office of the Lighthouse Board, "List of Lights of the Atlantic and the Gulf Coast of the United States, 1893", pp.100-101. Washington Government Printing Office, 1893.

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Tower

Location	on the shoals off Dames Point St. Johns River Florida United States
Coordinates	30°23′00″N 81°33′16″W / 30.38333°N 81.55444°W / 30.38333; -81.55444^[1]
Foundation	wooden piles with cast-iron sleeves
Construction	wooden tower
Shape	square tower atop keeper's house
Markings	white building, red piles

Light
First lit	1857 (lightship) 1872 (lighthouse)
Deactivated	1893
Focal height	35 feet (11 m)^[1]
Lens	Fifth-Order Fresnel lens^[1]
Range	9.6 nautical miles; 18 kilometres (11 mi)
Characteristic	F W