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Name: Parris Island Rear Range Light
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Nearest Town or City:
Parris Island, South Carolina, United States
Location: West coast of Parris Island, two miles northwest of front range light.
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Notes:
The locomotive-style lens apparatus for this light was kept in a lens house during the day and was run op on rails to the top of the tower at night. The lens house still stands and is the oldest standing structure on Parris Island.
Tower Height: 132
Description of Tower: Iron, triangular pyramidal skeletal tower.
This light is not operational
Date Established: 1878
Date Deactivated: 1912
Current Use: Destroyed.
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