Screw-pile Lighthouse - Surviving Examples

Surviving Examples

• Built in 1885, the Middle Bay Light in Alabama's Mobile Bay is an example of a common screw-pile lighthouse.
• The Seven Foot Knoll Light was built in 1856 and is the oldest screwpile lighthouse in Maryland. It was initially installed on a shallow shoal, Seven Foot Knoll, at the mouth of the Patapsco River. The northern reach of this river is the Baltimore Harbor, where the now-decommissioned lighthouse has been placed as a museum.
• The Thomas Point Shoal Light is a historic lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay on the east coast of the United States, and the most recognized lighthouse in Maryland.
• Carysfort Reef Light, four miles east of Key Largo, Florida, was built in 1852 and is the oldest screw-pile (with disk) lighthouse still in service in the United States. Screw-pile lighthouses on the reefs in Florida are tall skeletal towers, with living and working quarters set high above the reach of storm waves.
• Fowey Rocks Light, built in 1878, is seven miles south of Key Biscayne, Florida.
• American Shoal Light, completed in 1880, is located east of the Saddlebunch Keys, in the Florida Keys.
• Gasparilla Island Light, built in 1890, is located in Boca Grande, Florida.
• The Roanoake River Light was built in 1877, and has been moved twice. It is the only surviving screw-pile lighthouse in North Carolina.
• Gunfleet Lighthouse off Frinton-on-Sea in Essex was constructed in 1850 but abandoned in 1921.