Location | Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana |
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Coordinates | 29°41′39.4″N 91°12′58.7″W / 29.694278°N 91.216306°W |
Tower | |
Constructed | 1848, Lightship; 1856 |
Foundation | Pile with two platforms |
Construction | Iron plate |
Shape | Square pyramid on skeleton |
Markings | Red |
Heritage | National Register of Historic Places listed place |
Light | |
First lit | 1858 Current tower |
Deactivated | 1916 |
Lens | 4th order Fresnel lens |
Southwest Reef Lighthouse | |
Location | Jct. of Bellevue Front and Canton Sts., Berwick, Louisiana |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1858 |
Architectural style | Egyptian Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 91001152[1] |
Added to NRHP | September 12, 1991 |
Southwest Reef Light is a historic lighthouse built in 1856 at the end of Southwest Reef in Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana to replace lightships which had been stationed there for ten years.[2][3][4][5] It served to guide vessels around the reef and into the main channel of the Atchafalaya River. It was discontinued in 1916 after a new, shorter and deeper, channel had been dredged across the reef, making it obsolete. Point Au Fer Reef Light took over its function.
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