OLDEST Surviving Wooden Lighthouse In Texas - Pt. Lavaca, TX
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jhuoni
N 28° 38.222 W 096° 37.036
14R E 732921 N 3170095
Half Moon Reef Light now resides at the corner of TX-35 and Broadway, it now welcomes visitors to Port Lavaca.
Waymark Code: WMTDB3
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/05/2016
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Known as the oldest surviving wooden lighthouse structure in Texas, the Halfmoon Reef Light Station, a six-sided building, is made mostly of cypress wood and originally was attached to iron piles that had been screwed into the shallow bottom of Matagorda Bay. Built in the late 1850s, it guided ships past the treacherous Halfmoon Reef, a mud and oyster shell shoal on the east side of Matagorda Bay. Today it sits proudly next to the Bauer Community Center in Port Lavaca, Texas on Highway 35.
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