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The Oak Island Lighthouse is located in the Town of Caswell Beach near the mouth of the Cape Fear River in Southeastern North Carolina. It sits next to the Oak Island Coast Guard Station on the east end of Oak Island in Brunswick County looking south out at the Atlantic Ocean. Featuring 16 LED lights which produce four, one-second bursts of ...
The Cape Fear region is home to three of the eight lighthouses in North Carolina.
Beside two well-known lighthouses in Brunswick County ― Bald Head Island Lighthouse and the Oak Island Lighthouse ― there were other beacon of lights that guided ships throughout Cape Fear ...
Bald Head Lighthouse, known as Old Baldy, is the oldest lighthouse still standing in North Carolina. [2] It is the second of three lighthouses that have been built on Bald Head Island since the 18th century to help guide ships past the dangerous shoals at the mouth of the Cape Fear river.
Lighthouse/OIGCS Site OICGS Dock Area USCG 47' Motor Lifeboat. Eventually the Treasury Department acquired 57.2 acres of Fort Caswell by an act of Congress and in the late 1930s built the Oak Island Coast Guard Station. [3] Then in May 1958, the Oak Island Lighthouse immediately west of the Coast Guard Station became operational. [4]
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Oak Island Growth since 1999. Oak Island is located in southeastern Brunswick County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 19.9 square miles (51.6 km 2), of which 18.5 square miles (48.0 km 2) is land and 1.4 square miles (3.6 km 2) (7.02%) is water.
The 64-year-old and his wife have called Goat Island Lighthouse home for the better part of 30 years. Built in 1833, the lighthouse and its connecting residents' quarters sit on the edge of a tiny ...