Crooked River Lighthouse, Carabelle, Florida #2
by Dawna Moore Photography
Title
Crooked River Lighthouse, Carabelle, Florida #2
Artist
Dawna Moore Photography
Medium
Photograph - Nature And Travel Photography
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The 103-foot iron tower, flanked by a keeper’s dwelling on either side, was completed in August 1895. The revolving mechanism for the lens at Crooked River was repaired and adjusted in 1901 so it could run for sixteen hours between windings. The entire tower, save the black lantern room, was painted red up until 1902, when the bottom half of the tower was given a coat of white paint to offset it from the surrounding pine forest. Crooked River Lighthouse was electrified in 1933, and then automated in 1952. As the tower no longer required daily attention, the keeper’s dwellings were sold at auction in 1964. One of the dwellings subsequently burned, but the other is still used nearby as a residence. Crooked River Lighthouse was decommissioned in August 1995, just two months before the 100th anniversary of its first lighting, and stood neglected for a few years before ownership of the tower was transferred to the City of Carrabelle in 2001. The lighthouse was then leased to the Carrabelle Lighthouse Association, which immediately started to raise funds to restore the tower and open it to the public. At dusk on December 8, 2007, over 240 people watched as the refurbished tower was reactivated with an acrylic replica of the tower’s original Fresnel lens.
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February 5th, 2018
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