The Jupiter Lighthouse is located in Jupiter Florida and was first lit on
July 10, 1860. George Gordon Meade designed the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse,
which is 108 ft tall and sits atop of 48 ft mound, for a total height of 156 ft
with 105 steps to the top. The lighthouse is made of red brick and is
built upon a foundation of oyster shells.
The original keeper's dwelling burned down in 1927 and the current dwelling
dates from 1959.
Lighthouse facts:
The tower
was built in 1860
.
The light is an active aid to
navigation currently operational.
The current optic is the original first order Fresnel lens.
It is the oldest existing structure in Palm Beach County.
The Jupiter lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in
1976.
The lighthouse was restored in 1999 at a cost of $850,000.
The lighthouse is open to the public Sunday through Wednesday.
According to a Lighthouse Directory there are roughly 13,700
lighthouses in the world. That means that it's possible to find
beautiful lighthouses from Maine, to Rhode Island, to
Cancun or
abroad in Ireland and Australia. Even on a
Dominican Republic vacation or on the west coast in California and
Washington. The Jupiter Lighthouse is one of many beautiful lighthouses
around the
world visited every day.
