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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: |
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