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Sapelo Island Light

Field	Value
image	Sapelo Island Lighthouse, GA, US.jpg
caption	Sapelo Island Light
location	Darien, Georgia
coordinates
yearbuilt	1820
yearlit	1820
yeardeactivated	1905 to 1998
construction	Brick
shape	Conical
marking	6 alternate red and white horizontal
height	80 ft
lens	Lewis lamp (1820)
Fourth-order Fresnel lens (1854)
characteristic	Fixed white varied by a white flash every 45 s
module	{{Infobox NRHP
name	Sapelo Island Lighthouse
embed	yes
nrhp_type	hd
nocat	yes
location	S end of Sapelo Island, S of University of Georgia Marine Institute, Sapelo Island, Georgia
built	1905
architect	Winslow Lewis
added	August 26, 1997
area	205.9 acre
refnum	97000335

Fourth-order Fresnel lens (1854)

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.

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

History

Sapelo Island Lighthouse was built in 1820. It was designed and built by Winslow Lewis. It had fifteen Lewis lamps with 16 in reflectors. In the 1850s, the tower was raised by 10 ft 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 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.

Keepers

Jeremiah Lester 1821–1825
William Donnelly 1827–1841
Henry M. Caulder 1843–?
William Thomas 1845–1847
Robert B. Mason 1849–1851
Robert Hale ? – 1853)
Alexander Hazzard 1853–1862, 1868–1869
W.W. Brown 1869
James C. Clark 1869–1870
Montgomery P. Styles 1870–1871
J.T. Clancy 1871
Hiram Hammett 1871–1872
John Bradwell 1872–1873
James Cromley Sr. 1873–1889
William G. Cromley 1890–1900
James Cromley Jr. 1900–1921
Robert H. Cromley 1928–1933

References

{{NRISref
[http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=326 LighthouseFriends]
Kenneth H. Thomas Jr.. (March 3, 1997). ["National Register of Historic Places Registration: Sapelo Island Lighthouse"]({{NRHP url). [[National Park Service]].
{{cite uscghist. GA
(2002). "Southern Lighthouses: Outer Banks to Cape Florida". [[Globe Pequot Press]].

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