Sapelo Island Lighthouse
by Laurie Perry
Title
Sapelo Island Lighthouse
Artist
Laurie Perry
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The Sapelo Island Lighthouse in Georgia.
Sapelo Island Lighthouse was built in 1820. It was designed and built by Winslow Lewis. It had fifteen Lewis lamps with 16 in (41 cm) reflectors. In the 1850s, the tower was raised by 10 ft (3.0 m) and a fourth-order Fresnel lens was installed in 1854. The lens was removed during the Civil War. It was extensively repaired after an 1867 storm and relit in 1868. The tower was damaged by a strong hurricane in 1898.
A pyramidal 100 ft (30 m) skeletal tower lighthouse with a third-order Fresnel lens was built in 1905. This tower was dismantled and relocated in 1934 to South Fox Island, Michigan.
The 1820 lighthouse was inactive from 1905 to 1998, when it was restored to its 1890 appearance and was re-lit (with a modern light and lens).[3][4][5] Is now maintained by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and is unofficial.
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