- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- St. Simons Island Lighthouse
- Date of Original:
- 1989
- Subject:
- Lighthouses--Georgia--Saint Simons Island
Historic buildings--Georgia--Saint Simons Island
Fireworks--Georgia--Saint Simons Island
Saint Simon's Island Lighthouse (Ga.)
Barrier islands--Georgia
Saint Simons Island (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc. - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Glynn County, Saint Simons Island, 31.15051, -81.36954
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The lighthouse on St. Simons Island, pictured during a fireworks display in 1989, replaced the island's original lighthouse, which was dynamited by Confederate troops in 1862 as they retreated from Union forces. The occupying Union troops used the island as a camp for freedpeople.
Photograph of the St. Simons Island lighthouse, pictured during a fireworks display, on St. Simons Island, Georgia. The top of the lighthouse is lighted, and two bursts of fireworks rise in the sky behind the lighthouse. Architect Charles B. Cluskey designed the 104-foot brick lighthouse on St. Simons Island, which was completed in 1872. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/geography-environment/st-simons-island/m-4660/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Coastal Georgia Historical Society. Please do not use any images without permission
Coastal Georgia Historical Society - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2633
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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