Amelia Island North Range Light

The Amelia Island North Range Light was built to mark a channel over the sandbar at the mouth of the St. Mary's River, which led to the harbor at Fernandina Beach, Florida, on Amelia Island. It consisted of a lighthouse and a front range tower with a light, arranged so that when ships could see one light above the other, they were lined up with the channel. During the Civil War Confederate forces removed the lenses from the lights. Union forces seized Fernandina Beach, Fort Clinch and the lighthouse in 1862.

Amelia Island North Range Light
The 1872 Amelia Island North Range Lighthouse
Locationmouth of the St. Mary's River
Florida
United States
Coordinates{{WikidataCoord}} – missing coordinate data
Year first constructed1858
Year first lit1872 (rebuilt)
Deactivated1899
Constructionwood
Tower shapesquare tower atop keeper's house
Markings / patternwhite tower and lantern
Original lensSixth order Fresnel lens
CharacteristicF R
ARLHS numberUSA-1054[1][2]

It is known that the front range tower was destroyed during the war. There is no record of when the lighthouse was destroyed, but a new lighthouse was built in 1872. As the channel over the sand bar shifted with time, the front range light was periodically moved to maintain an alignment with the channel. In 1887 the rear range light was moved from the lighthouse to a tramway to permit proper adjustments to be made to the alignment. The light was decommissioned in 1899 after the channel was sufficiently marked with buoys. The lighthouse was listed in a survey in 1924, but has since disappeared.

See also

References
  1. Amelia Island North Range Rear The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 28 June 2016
  2. Amelia Island Rear Range Light Lightouse Explorer. Retrieved 28 June 2016
  • "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Florida". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01. Retrieved June 29, 2008.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.