 undated photograph of Merrill Shell Bank Light (USCG) | |
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| Location | Mississippi Sound south of Pass Christian |
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| Coordinates | 30°14′33″N 89°14′56″W / 30.2425°N 89.2489°W[1] |
| Tower | |
| Constructed | 1860 (first house) 1883 (second house)[2] |
| Foundation | Screw-pile[1] |
| Construction | square wooden house[1] |
| Automated | 1932 |
| Light | |
| Deactivated | 1945 |
| Focal height | 42 ft (13 m)[1] |
The Merrill Shell Bank Light was a screw-pile lighthouse which once stood on its eponymous shoal in the Mississippi Sound, west of Cat Island and south of Pass Christian, Mississippi. It was replaced by a skeleton tower on the same foundation.
- ^ a b c d List of Lights and Fog Signals on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States. Government Printing Office. March 1, 1907. pp. 242, 243. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
- ^ "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Mississippi". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01. Retrieved 2009-02-26.