BARATARIA BAY LIGHT


BAYOU ST. JOHN LIGHT


BONFOUCA LIGHT


CALCASIEU RANGE REAR LIGHT

CALCASIEU RIVER
Station Established: 1876
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1876
Operational? NO
Automated? UNK
Deactivated: UNK
Foundation Materials: PILES
Construction Materials:
Tower Shape: SKELETAL PYRAMIDAL
Markings/Pattern:
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER 1876


CHANDELEUR ISLAND LIGHT

OUTER RIM OF CHANDELEUR SOUND
Station Established: 1848
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1896
Operational? YES
Automated? YES
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: PILE
Construction Materials: IRON
Tower Shape: SKELETAL W/CYLINDER
Markings/Pattern: BROWN W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: THIRD ORDER, FRESNEL 1896


CUBITS GAP


EAST RIGOLETS LIGHT


FRANKS ISLAND LIGHT

FRANKS ISLAND
Station Established: 1818
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1823
Operational? NO
Automated? NO
Deactivated: 1856
Foundation Materials:
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape:
Markings/Pattern: CONICAL
Relationship to Other Structure: INTEGRAL
Original Lens:


HEAD OF THE PASSES LIGHT


NEW CANAL LIGHT

LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN CANAL ENTRANCE
Station Established: 1838
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1901
Operational? YES
Automated? YES
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: PILE W/PLATFORM
Construction Materials: WOOD
Tower Shape: SQUARE
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/RED ROOF
Relationship to Other Structure: INTEGRAL
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER


OYSTER BAY (BAYOU) LIGHT

EASTERNMOST ENTRANCE ATCHAFALAYA BAY
Station Established: 1903
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1903
Operational? NO
Automated? YES 1946
Deactivated:
Foundation Materials: PILE W/PLATFORM
Construction Materials: WOOD
Tower Shape: SQUARE TOWER ON SQUARE DWELLING
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/DARK ROOFS & LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: INTEGRAL
Original Lens:


PASS A L'OUTRE LIGHT

HEAD OF PASSES/MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA
Station Established: 1855
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1855
Operational? NO
Automated? NO
Deactivated: 1934
Foundation Materials: STONE/TIMBER PILE
Construction Materials: CAST IRON W/BRICK LINING
Tower Shape: CONICAL
Markings/Pattern: BLACK/WHITE SPIRALS W/DARK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: THIRD ORDER, FRESNEL 1855


PASS MANCHAC LIGHT

WEST SHORE OF LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN
Station Established: 1837
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1868
Operational? NO
Automated? YES 1952
Deactivated: 1987
Foundation Materials: STONE
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1859


PEARL RIVER LIGHT


POINT AU FER REEF LIGHT

EUGENE ISLAND/ATCHAFALAYA BAY
Station Established: 1827
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1916
Operational? NO
Automated? YES 1975
Deactivated:
Foundation Materials: PILE W/PLATFORM
Construction Materials: WOOD
Tower Shape: SQUARE W/OCTAGONAL LANTERN
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK TOWER
Relationship to Other Structure: INTEGRAL
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER


POINTE AUX HERBES LIGHT


PORT PONTCHARTRAIN LIGHT

LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN
Station Established: 1832
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1855
Operational? NO
Automated? NO
Deactivated: 1929
Foundation Materials: CONCRETE PAD ON PILINGS
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: HOURGLASS W/OCTAGONAL LANTERN
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/RED LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER FRESNEL 1857


SABINE PASS LIGHT

LOUISIANA SIDE OF SABINE PASS/NE TEXAS BORDER
Station Established: 1856
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1856
Operational? NO
Automated? UNK
Deactivated: 1952
Foundation Materials: SIX BRICK BUTTRESSES
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: OCTAGONAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE/BLACK STRIPES "ROCKET SHIP"
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: THIRD ORDER, FRESNEL


SHIP SHOAL LIGHT

10 MILES SOUTH OF GRAND ISLE
Station Established: 1859
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1859
Operational? NO
Automated? YES 1950
Deactivated: 1972
Foundation Materials: SCREW PILE W/PLATFORM
Construction Materials: CAST IRON
Tower Shape: SKELETAL W/CYLINDER
Markings/Pattern: BROWN
Relationship to Other Structure: INTEGRAL
Original Lens: SECOND ORDER


SOUTH PASS RANGE FRONT LIGHT

MISSISSIPPI RIVER
Station Established: 1919
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1947
Operational? NO
Automated? UNK
Deactivated:
Foundation Materials:
Construction Materials:
Tower Shape: SKELETAL
Markings/Pattern:
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens:


SOUTH PASS RANGE LIGHTS

ENTRANCE TO MISSISSIPPI RIVER
Station Established: 1831
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1881; Second Tower: 1947
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1971
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: PILINGS
Construction Materials: IRON
Tower Shape: SKELETAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE BELOW GALLERY, BLACK ABOVE
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FIRST ORDER, FRESNEL


SOUTHWEST PASS ENTRANCE LIGHT

SOUTHWEST PASS ENTRANCE
Station Established: 1831
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1962
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1985
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: PILE/TIMBER
Construction Materials: CONCRETE/STEEL
Tower Shape: TEXAS TOWER
Markings/Pattern: TOWER ON WHITE DWELLING ON PILES
Relationship to Other Structure: INTEGRAL
Original Lens: FIRST ORDER


SOUTHWEST REEF LIGHT

RELOCATED FROM ATCHAFALAYA BAY
Station Established: 1858
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1858
Operational? NO
Automated? NO
Deactivated: 1916
Foundation Materials: PILE W/2 PLATFORMS
Construction Materials: IRON PLATE
Tower Shape: SQUARE PYRAMIDAL SKELETAL
Markings/Pattern: PLATFORM BUNGALOW
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER 1858


TCHEFUNCTE RIVER RANGE REAR LIGHT

NORTH SIDE LAKE PONCHARTRAIN
Station Established: 1838
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1868
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1952
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: STONE
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: CONICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/VERTICAL BLACK STRIPE
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER, FRESNEL


TIMBALIER BAY LIGHT

GENERAL INFORMATION:

On August 3, 1854, Congress appropriated $15,000 "for a light station to mark the entrance to Timbalier Bay and for coast purposes." The lighthouse was reported completed in 1857. During the Civil War the light was discontinued. Upon the occupation of the southern portion of Texas by Union forces in 1864, application was made by the military authorities for the reestablishment of the Timbalier light. Measures were promptly inaugurated to ascertain the condition and necessities of the station and suitable illuminating apparatus was sent to be put in position when requisite repairs had been completed. The tower was described in 1867 as built upon a low sand beach near the point of Timbalier Island which, by that year, had been encroached upon by the sea until it was entirely surrounded by water.

By February 1867 the tower was in danger of falling and workmen were sent to take down the lens and establish a beacon on top of the dwelling. On the 29th and 30th of March 1867, during a hurricane, the dwelling, together with the tower, and everything about the station was leveled to the ground and covered with 3 to 6 feet of water. The keepers barely escaped with their lives and lived for some days in on iron can buoy. Congress appropriated $50,000 for a new lighthouse on March 3, 1869, followed by two similar amounts in 1871 and 1873. A final appropriation of $15,000 was made in 1874. With $120,000 of these appropriations a new iron screw-pile lighthouse, with focal plane 125 feet above sea level, was completed by January 1875. The new lighthouse was placed in the water inside the island, which acted as an effective breakwater. The design was a skeleton frame work with a spiral stairway, enclosed by sheet iron, giving access to the lantern and provided with a keeper?s dwelling in the lower part of the tower. The lens was a second-order, showing a fixed white light varied by red flashes.

In 1894 the light tower was undermined by the scouring of the channel and on the morning of January 23, 1894, it canted over. The illuminating apparatus was saved but was in damaged condition. An attempt was made to take the dismantled tower to pieces and save it, but owing to the inability of the lighthouse tender to approach near enough to the wreck, the work was discontinued and the lighthouse was abandoned. The lighthouse Board decided that requirements of navigation were not such as to justify the rebuilding of the tower, but decided to use instead a lens-lantern light.

The present structure was rebuilt in 1917. It is a white square tower on a wooden dwelling built on piles and stands in 6 feet of water off the north side of the east end of the island. The light was changed to unwatched operation in 1939 and consisted of an 850-candlepower light which was 56 feet above the water and could be seen 13 miles, flashing white every 4 seconds. The building is now used as a daybeacon.


WEST RIGOLETS LIGHT

RIGOLETS CHANNEL
Station Established: 1855
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1855
Operational? NO
Automated?
Deactivated: 1945
Foundation Materials: PILINGS
Construction Materials: WOOD
Tower Shape: ROUND LANTERN ON SQUARE HOUSE
Markings/Pattern:
Relationship to Other Structure: INTEGRAL
Original Lens: