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There are several lighthouses in the U.S. state of Texas, including several listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] Not every lighthouse in Texas is listed here as some have very little information known about them. Saluria, and Swash lights for example were built right before the civil war and were both destroyed by confederate ...
Articles about lighthouses in the U.S. state of Texas. For a manually maintained list, complete with yet-to-be-written articles, see Lighthouses in the United States.
Seal at Montauk Point Light listing the members of the U.S. Lighthouse Board in 1860.. The United States Lighthouse Board was the second agency of the U.S. federal government, under the Department of Treasury, responsible for the construction and maintenance of all lighthouses and navigation aids in the United States, between 1852 and 1910.
Fort Point Light ; Location: Entrance to Galveston Bay, Texas: Coordinates (approx.): Tower; Constructed: 1881: Foundation: screw-pile: Construction: cast-iron/wood: Height: 47 feet (14 m): Shape: hexagonal house: Light; First lit: 1882: Deactivated: 1909: Lens: Fourth order Fresnel lens: Characteristic: Fixed white with several red and dark sectors: Fort Point Light was a lighthouse located ...
The United States Lighthouse Society (USLHS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to aiding in the restoration of American lighthouses and educating the public about their history. With four chapters, and more than a dozen affiliates, it is one of the largest and oldest lighthouse organizations in the world.
The first lighthouse keeper, H. C. Claiborne, retired in 1918, after witnessing those two storms, and was replaced by a Captain J. Brooks. From the 1890s until the line's abandonment in 1942, the lighthouse looked down on the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway line that ran between it and Texas State Highway 87. Port Bolivar Lighthouse
The Point (Port) Isabel Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse located in Port Isabel, Texas, United States that was built in 1852 to guide ships through the Brazos Santiago Pass to Port Isabel. The lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 30, 1976.
In Australian English, a billabong (/ ˈ b ɪ l ə b ɒ ŋ / BIL-ə-bong) is a small body of water, usually permanent. It is usually an oxbow lake caused by a change in course of a river or creek , but other types of small lakes , ponds or waterholes are also called billabongs.