Sapelo Island Light
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The lighthouse is a Script error: No such module "convert". brick structure, about Script error: No such module "convert". in diameter at the base and Script error: No such module "convert". at the top. Its brick walls are several feet thick at the bottom, tapering to about two feet thick at the top.[2]
History
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Sapelo Island Lighthouse was built in 1820. It was designed and built by Winslow Lewis. It had fifteen Lewis lamps with Script error: No such module "convert". reflectors. In the 1850s, the tower was raised by Script error: No such module "convert". 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 Script error: No such module "convert". 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).[3][4][5] 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[6]
See also
References
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- 1820 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
- Buildings and structures in McIntosh County, Georgia
- Lighthouses completed in 1820
- Lighthouses completed in 1905
- Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
- National Register of Historic Places in McIntosh County, Georgia
- Sapelo Island