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lighthouse A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Lighthouses mar ...

s in the U.S. state of Georgia as identified by the

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. There are three active lights in the state including one maintained as a private aid; four are standing but inactive, and one has been replaced by an automated skeleton tower, and one destroyed by a ship collision. One tower, the second

Sapelo Island Light Sapelo Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Georgia, United States, near the southern tip of Sapelo Island. It is the nation's second-oldest brick lighthouse and the oldest survivor among lighthouses designed by Winslow Lewis. The lighthouse, oi ...

, was moved to Michigan; the first tower on the site is still standing and was relit in 1998. The earliest lighthouse in the state was erected in 1736; the oldest surviving tower is the

, though the present

Tybee Island Light Tybee Island Light is a lighthouse next to the Savannah River Entrance, on the northeast end of Tybee Island, Georgia. It is one of seven surviving colonial era lighthouse towers, though highly modified in the mid 1800s. History The current ...

, erected in 1867, incorporates the base of its 1773 predecessor. The last lighthouse in the state, the Savannah Light, was constructed in 1964. The lighthouses on Cumberland Island, Sapelo Island, and St. Simons Island are on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

. The Old Harbor Light in Savannah is a contributing property to a

National Historic Landmark A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance. Only some 2,500 (~3%) of over 90,000 places listed ...

district. If not otherwise noted, focal height and coordinates are taken from the United States Coast Guard '' Light List'', while location and dates of activation, automation, and deactivation are taken from the

Historical information site for lighthouses.

Notes

:A. Sapelo Island Light also served as a rear range light from 1856 to 1898. :B. The second Sapelo Island Light was a steel tower built in 1905, it was later re-erected at South Fox Island Light (Michigan) in 1933. The original brick 1820 tower was reactivated in 1998 and still stands today. :C. Sapelo Island Light originally had a Fourth-order Fresnel lens but it has since been replaced by an unknown modern optic. :D. There isn't any evidence that this is still used for navigational purposes. The light remains lit as a decorate piece. :E. Replaced with a skeleton tower at an unknown date.

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Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee and North Carolina; to the northeast by South Carolina; to the southeast by the Atlantic Ocean; to the south by ...

Lighthouses A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Lighthouses mark ...