Photograph
Amelia Island Lighthouse
| View along a sandy pathway toward the Amelia Island lighthouse near the keeper's house. Trees line the pathway, and two horses pulling a carriages are on the elft. The lighthouse is constructed of brick – a “double-walled tower — a cone within a cone — with metal cupola” and stands 67 feet tall. This brick lighthouse actually was first built in 1820 on neighboring Cumberland Island, Georgia, across the channel from Fernandina Beach, and was known as the Cumberland tower. Nature shifted the channel southward, and as a result, the navigational usefulness of the tower on Cumberland became obsolete. Reportedly, in 1834, Congress was petitioned by people of the Florida Territory ( Florida was not yet a state), requesting the lighthouse be moved from Cumberland across the waterway to Amelia Island. Brick by brick, the tower on Cumberland was dismantled in 1838 and reconstructed using the same bricks on Amelia Island, and completed in 1839. |
| Image ID: | 71866 |
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| Creation Date: | 1905 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
| City: | Fernandina |
| County: | |
| State: | Florida |
| Collection Name: | Albertype Company photographs, circa 1880s-circa 1950 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, original |
| Original Format Number: | (A6)01528 |
| Original Dimensions: | 5 x 4 inches |
| Dwellings |
| Trees |
| Porches |
| Horses |
| Lighthouses |
| Outdoor photography |
| Carriages and carts |
| Horse-drawn vehicles |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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