Sapelo Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Georgia, United States, near the southern tip of Sapelo Island. It is the nation's second-oldest brick lighthouse and the oldest survivor among lighthouses designed by Winslow Lewis.LighthouseFriends The lighthouse, oil building, the cistern, the footing of the 1905 light, the ruins of the fortification, and the associated range light were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
The lighthouse is a brick structure, about in diameter at the base and at the top. Its brick walls are several feet thick at the bottom, tapering to about two feet thick at the top. with
History
Sapelo Island Lighthouse was built in 1820. It was designed and built by Winslow Lewis. It had fifteen Lewis lamps with reflectors. In the 1850s, the tower was raised by 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 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 relit (with a modern light and lens). Is now maintained by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and is unofficial.
Keepers
Jeremiah Lester 1821–1825 William Donnelly 1827–1841 Henry M. Caulder 1843–? William Thomas 1845–1847 Robert B. Mason 1849–1851 Robert Hale ? – 1853) Alexander Hazzard 1853–1862, 1868–1869 W.W. Brown 1869 James C. Clark 1869–1870 Montgomery P. Styles 1870–1871 J.T. Clancy 1871 Hiram Hammett 1871–1872 John Bradwell 1872–1873 James Cromley Sr. 1873–1889 William G. Cromley 1890–1900 James Cromley Jr. 1900–1921 Robert H. Cromley 1928–1933
See also Sapelo Island Range Front Light
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