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Point Isabel (Port Isabel)
State: TX
Year established: 1853
Latitude: 26 deg 4
min 40 sec N
Longitude: 97 deg 12
min 27 sec W
Height above sea level: 91 feet Original construction:
50-foot conical white-brick tower Rebuilds:
 1866: reactivated after repair of damage by Confederate forces in 1863
1881: New lantern room installed
1952: Extensive renovations made
2000: Fully restored replica to 1880's appearance
Status:
abandoned in 1886; reactivated in 1895; decommissioned in 1905; sold to private bidder in 1927; dedicated as state park in 1952; private aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
flashing white
Notes:
Original name, "Point Isabel", changed to "Port Isabel" after its purchase by the newly renamed Town Committee in the mid- 1920s; however, National Historic Register and National Geodetic Survey list site as "Point Isabel"
More information:
http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=159
http://www.coastlights.com/Texas/ptisabel.html
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/portisab/
U.S. Department of Homeland Security / United States Coast Guard, Light List, Volume 4 Gulf of Mexico, Econfina River, Florida to the Rio Grande, Texas, (Washington, DC: GPO, 2004), p. 361
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