Southwest Reef Light

Southwest Reef Light


Location	Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana
Coordinates	29°23′31.6″N 91°30′14.12″W / 29.392111°N 91.5039222°W / 29.392111; -91.5039222Coordinates: 29°23′31.6″N 91°30′14.12″W / 29.392111°N 91.5039222°W / 29.392111; -91.5039222
Year first constructed	1848, Lightship; 1856
Year first lit	1858 Current tower
Automated	n/a
Deactivated	1916
Foundation	Pile with two platforms
Construction	Iron plate
Tower shape	Square pyramid on skeleton
Markings / pattern	Red
Original lens	4th order Fresnel lens
ARLHS number	USA-780^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Southwest Reef Lighthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Jct. of Bellevue Front and Canton Sts., Berwick, Louisiana
Area	less than one acre
Built	1858
Architectural style	Egyptian Revival
NRHP Reference #	91001152 ^[5]
Added to NRHP	September 12, 1991

Southwest Reef Light is a historic lighthouse built in 1856 at the end of Southwest Reef in Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana to replace lightships which had been stationed there for ten years. It served to guide vessels around the reef and into the main channel of the Atchafalaya River. It was discontinued in 1916 after a new, shorter and deeper, channel had been dredged across the reef, making it obsolete. Point Au Fer Reef Light took over its function.

It sat, rusting, in shallow water^[1] on the reef until 1987 when the town of Berwick, Louisiana paid to have it moved about 25 miles (40 km) upriver to a park in the town on the Atchafalaya River. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 as Southwest Reef Lighthouse.

The location given in the title bar and the National Register box is the current location in Berwick. The location given in the upper box is its original location on the reef.

References

1 2 NOAA Chart: Point au Fer to Marsh Island, 1/80,000. 11351. 2004. Missing or empty |title= (help)
↑ "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Louisiana". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
↑ Rowlett, Russ (2010-01-11). "Lighthouses of Louisiana". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
↑ "Southwest Reef Light". Inventory of Historic Light Stations: Louisiana Lighthouses. National Park Service. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
↑ National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.

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