Anclote Keys Light
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The Anclote Keys Light is a lighthouse built in 1887 on Anclote Key, the largest of the Anclote Keys. It is a skeletal square pyramidal tower, painted brown, with a black lantern. After the lighthouse was automated in 1952 the tower and other buildings at the site were often vandalized, interfering with the operation of the light. The Coast Guard determined that the light was no longer needed and deactivated it in 1984. The site was eventually turned over to the State of Florida and added to Anclote Key Preserve State Park. As of 2003 the lighthouse has been restored and relighted using a reproduction fourth-order Fresnel lens. Anclote Key is accessible only by boat.[1][2][3]
It is listed as Anclote Key Light number 1555 in the USCG light lists.[4] Template:Stack
Head keepers
- James Gardner (1887 – 1888)
- Samuel E. Hope, Jr. (1888 – 1889)
- James M. Baggett (1889 – 1891)
- Robert S. Meyer (1891 – 1914)
- Thomas A. Moody (1914 – 1923)
- Robert S. Meyer (1923 – 1933),
- James L. Pippin (1933 – at least 1949)
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- Lighthouses completed in 1887
- Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida
- National Register of Historic Places in Pinellas County, Florida
- 1887 establishments in Florida
- Transportation buildings and structures in Pinellas County, Florida