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Managing Organization:
Carrabelle Lighthouse Association
Website: http://www.moniquesimmons.com/carrabelle/
Email:
Contact Address Information:
P.O. Box 373
Carrabelle
Florida, 32322, United States
Notes:
This lighthouse was built as a replacement for Dog Island Lighthouse after it was lost in an 1873 hurricane. The keeper's house has been removed from the station and is now a private residence. The lighthouse is owned by the City of Carrabelle and is leased to the Carrabelle Lighthouse Association, who hope to restore the badly deteriorating tower.
Description of Tower: Square pyramidal iron skeletal type tower, lower part white and upper part brown, with black cast iron lantern.
This light is not operational
Other Buildings?
Keeper's dwelling was moved two miles west of the lighthouse.
Date Established: 1895
Date Deactivated: 1995
Date Automated: 1952
Optics: 1895: Fourth order Fresnel lens, now at USCG, 8th District headquarters in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Current Use: Under restoration.
Open To Public? Yes (occasionally).
Directions:
Take US Highway 98 to Carrabelle. There is a small sign for the lighthouse on a dirt road to the left. There is currently no public parking. The lighthouse is open occasionally; contact the Carrabelle Lighthouse Association for information.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Keepers: James Albert Williams (1895-1906), Tip Warren, assistant (1895-1908), Albert A. Williams, assistant (1898-1906, then keeper 1906-1912), Charles Henry Williams, assistant (1906-1909), John Leroy Williams, assistant (1909-1911), Thornwald Hansen, assistant (1911), B. F. Tucker, assistant (1911-1912), Martin L. Boyed, assistant (?).
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