Sapelo Island Front Range Light Sapelo Island Georgia #1
by Dawna Moore Photography
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Sapelo Island Front Range Light Sapelo Island Georgia #1
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Dawna Moore Photography
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Photograph - Nature And Travel Photography
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"In 1855, the Lighthouse Board requested $1,500 for a beacon light on the southern point of Sapelo Island, where it would form a range with Sapelo Lighthouse to assist mariners in locating the proper channel for entering Doboy Sound. Congress supplied the requested amount on August 18, 1856, and the beacon, which exhibited a fixed white light using a fifth-order Fresnel lens, was placed in operation in 1857. Mariners were told to "bring the beacon in range with the main light, and run for them until the outer or east beacon on Wolf island" was at a specific bearing.
The beacon that served as the front range light was apparently heavily damaged or destroyed during the Civil War, as a new movable beacon was built following that conflict. After extensive repairs, Sapelo Island Lighthouse returned to service on the evening of April 15, 1868, along with the beacon, which was mounted on a fifty-foot frame tower located 660 feet southeast of the lighthouse. The beacon's tower was placed on a 100-foot tramway so it could be easily moved to track changes in the offshore channel." (lighthousefriends.com)
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March 15th, 2015
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