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Dames Point Light ; Location: on the shoals off Dames Point St. Johns River Florida United States: Coordinates: 1]: 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) [1]: Lens: Fifth ...
The lighthouse was automated by the United States Coast Guard in 1960, and in 2000 the Coast Guard spent $150,000 in 2000 to stabilize the lighthouse. [ citation needed ] In 2000 [ 2 ] or 2001 [ 3 ] the lighthouse's fourth-order Fresnel lens was deactivated and a modern solar-powered beacon was placed outside the lantern room.
In 1927 the name of Mosquito Inlet was changed to Ponce de Leon Inlet. The lighthouse was transferred from the abolished Lighthouse Service to the United States Coast Guard in 1939, which would oversee it for the next three decades. In 1970, the Coast Guard abandoned the old light station and established a new beacon at New Smyrna Beach. The ...
Eugene "Cap" Knight was born in or near the Canaveral lighthouse, Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1871. [2] His father, his grandfather and later his brother worked as lighthouse keepers in Florida. [19] Knight was one of the earliest settlers in the Hillsboro Beach area. [14] From a seafaring family, he left home at 13 to join the merchant marine. [2]
The buildings quickly deteriorated, and by 1970 beach erosion had exposed the screw-piles supporting the building, with waves breaking under the building at high tide. Two rock groins were built to protect the lighthouse, and sand was pumped in to build up the beach. Lee County took title of the lighthouse in 1972.
The Cape St. George Light is a 72-foot (22 m) high brick lighthouse which had originally stood for 153 years on St. George Island, Florida, until toppling into the Gulf of Mexico October 22, 2005. The pieces of the lighthouse were retrieved, and in April 2008, the light's restoration was completed.
Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on the north side of Hillsboro Inlet, midway between Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton, in Hillsboro Beach, Florida. The light marks the northern limit of the Florida Reef , an underwater coral formation on the lower east coast of the state.