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Lighthouses Marker, lower left picture
Photographer: Lighthouses Marker
Caption: Lighthouses Marker, lower left picture
Additional Description: The original lighthouse on the inner breakwater was the Strickland Lighthouse, designed by the engineer incharge of building the breakwater. Completed in 1849, it was white brick with a wooden tower for the latern. Its most unique features were several large open arches on the ground level so that high tides and waves could pass right through the structure.
Submitted: November 29, 2010, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p138527
File Size: 0.118 Megabytes

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