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St. Augustine
State: FL
Year established: 1737
Latitude: 29 deg 53
min 6 sec N
Longitude: 81 deg 17
min 18 sec W
Height above sea level: 161 feet Original construction:
44-foot tower of calcareous stone built by the Spanish and used as a watchtower until 1824 when it became Florida's first lighthouse Rebuilds:
 1867:Relighted, despite threatening erosion
1874: New 165-foot conical brick lighthouse lighted about half-mile away from old tower
1881: original lighthouse undermined and fell into the ocean
Status:
electrified in 1936; automated in 1955; private aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
fixed white light visible for 19 nautical miles and white light flashing once every 30 seconds visible for 24 nautical miles
More information:
http://www.staugustinelighthouse.com/history/index.html
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHFL.html
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/staugust.htm
Holland Jr., F. Ross, America's Lighthouses: Their Illustrated History Since 1716, (Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1972), pp. 120-121
McCarthy, Kevin, Florida Lighthouses, (Gainsville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1990), pp. 21-24
U.S. Department of Homeland Security / United States Coast Guard, Light List, Volume 3 Atlantic Coast and Gulf Coast, Little River, South Carolina to Econfina River, Florida, (Washington, DC: GPO, 2004), p. 6
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