American Shoal Light

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Offshore, Looe Key, Florida
Offshore, Looe Key, Florida

Revision as of 10:28, 27 May 2009

American Shoal Light in 1996
American Shoal Light in 1996

Offshore, Looe Key, Florida

Built: 1880

Automated: 1963

This light is a brown disc and screw pile tower with an octagonal, pyramidal shape. It has a white central tubular stairwell. The former keeper's house, a brown octagonal structure, rests on a platform about 40 feet above the water. The light shines 109 feet above sea level. It is almost a duplicate of Fowey Rocks Light.


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