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Name: Parris Island Rear Range Light  

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Nearest Town or City:
Parris Island, South Carolina, United States

Location: West coast of Parris Island, two miles northwest of front range light.

Notes:
The locomotive-style lens apparatus for this light was kept in a lens house during the day and was run op on rails to the top of the tower at night. The lens house still stands and is the oldest standing structure on Parris Island.

Tower Height: 132

Description of Tower: Iron, triangular pyramidal skeletal tower.

This light is not operational

Date Established: 1878

Date Deactivated: 1912

Current Use: Destroyed.


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