 Sapelo Island Light | |
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| Location | Darien, Georgia |
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| Coordinates | 31°23′29″N 81°17′08″W / 31.39127°N 81.28568°W |
| Tower | |
| Constructed | 1820 |
| Construction | Brick |
| Height | 80 ft (24 m) |
| Shape | Conical |
| Markings | 6 alternate red and white horizontal |
| Heritage | National Register of Historic Places listed place  |
| Light | |
| First lit | 1820 |
| Deactivated | 1905 to 1998 |
| Focal height | 23 m (75 ft) |
| Lens | Lewis lamp (1820) Fourth-order Fresnel lens (1854) |
| Characteristic | Fixed white varied by a white flash every 45 s |
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 |
| Architect | Winslow Lewis |
| NRHP reference No. | 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. It is the nation's second-oldest brick lighthouse and the oldest survivor among lighthouses designed by Winslow Lewis.[2] 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.
The lighthouse is a 65-foot (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.[3]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ LighthouseFriends
- ^ Kenneth H. Thomas Jr.; Richard Cloues (March 3, 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Sapelo Island Lighthouse". National Park Service. Retrieved January 28, 2017. with eight photos