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Managing Organization:
Hillsboro Lighthouse Preservation Society
Telephone: 954-942-2102
Website: http://www.hillsborolighthouse.org
Email:
Contact Address Information:
P.O. Box 6062
Pompano Beach
Florida, 33060, United States
Tower Height: 137
Height of Focal Plane: 136
Description of Tower: Octagonal, skeletal iron tower, upper part black and lower part white.
This light is operational
Other Buildings?
1907 1.5 story keepers house, barracks, recreation building, garage, generator building.
Date Established: 1907
Date Present Tower Built: 1907
Date Automated: 1974
Optics: 1907: Second order Fresnel lens
Current Use: Active aid to navigation, Coast Guard houseing.
Open To Public? no
Directions:
The best place from which to photograph the lighthouse is a beach south of the inlet. Public access to the beach is via NE 16th Street (.1 mile north of FL 844, 4.4 miles south of FL 810, Hillsboro Boulevard).
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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