Daufuskie Island (Haig Point) Lighthouse
N 32° 08.717 W 080° 50.187
17S E 515423 N 3556551
Daufuskie Island (Haig Point) Lighthouse is a beautiful lighthouse on Daufuskie Island South Carolina. This lighthouse is best viewed by boat but with patient planning and a fat wallet you can stay the night in the lighthouse quarters!
Waymark Code: WM174FE
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 12/09/2022
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Haig Point Lighthouse beamed it's first signal across Calibogue Sound on October 1st 1873 using a fifth-order Fresnel lens. This gave ships safe passage between Port Royal Harbor and the Savannah River. The lighthouse had three keepers until the Coast Guard decommissioned it in July 1924. After 1939 the lighthouse stood empty and abandoned nearly rotting away to nothing!
In 1984, International Paper Realty Corporation purchased Haig Point with plans to develop a low-key, resort community. Haig Point Lighthouse went through an extensive restoration and in 1986, Haig Point Lighthouse was re-lit in a festive ceremony that included a fireworks display and members of the Savannah Symphony playing Stars and Stripes Forever.
There have been 3 keepers: Patrick Comer (1873 – 1891), Richard Stonebridge (1891 – 1923), Charles L. Sisson (1923 – 1924).
As stated above in the quick description, you can book a stay in the lighthouse quarters. At the time this was written it was 500+ a night!
We took a dolphin cruise out of Hilton Head and while passing close to Daufuskie Island we asked the captain if he would drive us by the lighthouse to take some pictures which he gladly did!
Coastal Lighthouse: Lighthouse
Range Lights: Not listed
LIGHTHOUSE CHALLENGE VISIT: Not listed
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