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Managing Organization:
University of New Orleans
Website: http://www.uno.edu
Notes:
When this lighthouse was built it was more than 2,000 feet offshore, but landfill projects have left it on dry land. Height of Focal Plane: 42 Description of Tower: Brick hourglass-shaped tower (was raised by seven feet in 1880)
This light is not operational
Earlier Towers?
1832: Privately built structure -- square lantern hoisted to a height of 50 feet between two supports; 1838: 28-foot octagonal wooden lighthouse. Date Established: 1832 Date Present Tower Built: 1855 Date Deactivated: 1929 Optics: 1857: Fifth order Fresnel lens. Current Use: Attraction on university property. Open To Public? Grounds only. Directions:
The lighthouse is at Pontchartrain Beach off Lakeshore Drive in Milneburg. NOTE: The building immediately east of the lighthouse is a federal facility. Visitors are permitted to photograph the lighthouse but must not point their cameras toward the federal facility. Keepers: Benjamin J. Shane (1839-?), Charles Fagot (c. 1860s, was keeper during Civil War), David Power (?-1882), Ellen Wilson (1882-1896), Margaret R. Norvell (1896-1924), Minnie E. Coteron (1924-1929)
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