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Managing Organization:
City of Fernandina Beach
Telephone: 904-277-7305
Website: http://www.fernandinabeachflorida.org
Notes:
This lighthouse was built largely from a dismantled 1820 lighthouse on Great Cumberland Island, Georgia. The city received a $350,000 state grant in 2002 to restore the lighthouse, and the restoration was completed in 2004.
Tower Height: 64
Height of Focal Plane: 107
Characteristic and Range: Flashing white every 10 seconds.
Description of Tower: White, conical brick tower with black cast iron lantern.
This light is operational
Other Buildings?
1950 keeper's dwelling, oil house.
Date Established: 1838
Date Present Tower Built: 1838
Date Automated: 1956
Optics: 1903: Third order Fresnel lens, still in use.
Current Use: Active aid to navigation, Coast Guard housing.
Open To Public? No.
Directions:
The light station is not open to the public, but the upper part of the tower (the lower part is blocked by foliage) can be photographed from Florida Route A1A (Atlantic Ave.) in Fernandina Beach between Fort Clinch (Park Drive) and North Wolfe Street. From John Warnick: While the Atlantic Ave location will provide a view and photograph, a better view and photo are possible by entering the park. Shortly after paying the small fee, there is an area on the left with information about the lighthouse. If you follow the path you will be offered a better view of the lighthouse.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Keepers: Amos Latham (1838-?), Capt. E. Richardson, Mary Whalton, George W. Whalton, Horace Vaughn, James W. Woodland, Christopher C. Moore, George Lightner, James H. Parker, Joseph H. Donnelly, Miles J. Thompson, Henry Swain, Henry Gage, Samuel Petty, Joseph S. Howell, Charles William Grimm (?-c.1910), Thomas P. O'Hagen, Thomas J. O'Hagen, Otho Brown, ASSISTANTS: Mrs. Winifred Woodland, William M. McGline, Benjamin Randall, Jane M. Donnelly, Elisha Suydam, Dewayne W. Suydam, Benjamin Vepan, Edward Mordecai, Adam Williams, John Elwood McKay, Edward E. Pepper, Joseph Hendricks, Jos. Bundy, Wilbur J. Scott, Eugene J. Dozier, J.T. Burn
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