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Photographer: Lighthouses Marker
Caption: Lighthouses Marker
Additional Description: The first permanent Harbor of Refuge Lighthouse was a six-sided wooden structure atop an iron caisson. Completed and first lit in 1908, it had an oil vapor lamp with a fourth-order lens and a compressed-air foghorn that sounded through two huge Daboll trumpets on the watchroom level. There was also a fog bell beside the old construction building on the breakwater. The handsome wooden section of the lighthouse was painted white with lead-colored trim. The caisson was brown.
Submitted: November 29, 2010, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p138534
File Size: 0.153 Megabytes

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