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Managing Organization:
Alabama Historical Commission
Telephone:
334-242-3184
Website: http://www.preserveala.org
Contact Address Information:
468 South Perry Street
Montgomery
Alabama,
36130-0900,
United States
Notes:
Mobile Middle Bay Light was damaged in a 1916 hurricane. It was restored by the Middle Bay Light Centennial Committee in 1984, and stabilized in 1993. A new renovation begun in September 2002 was completed in 2003. As part of the renovation a skeletal tower holding the light atop the lighthouse was replaced by a shorter mast. In 2013 it was discovered that some of the steel support rods that support the lighthouse had broken. The Alabama Historical Commission had promised $30,000 per year to maintain the lighthouse, which it did not. In June 2013 the lighthouse was added to the Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List of Endangered Lighthouses. Tower Height: 48 Height of Focal Plane: 48 Characteristic and Range: Red flash every 6 seconds. Listed on the Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List of endangered lighthouses.
This light is operational
Other Buildings?
1905 1.5 story hexagonal wood keeper's quarters integral to tower; foundation: screw piling with platform. Date Established: 1885 (12/1/1885) Date Present Tower Built: 1905 Date Deactivated: 1967 Date Automated: 1935 Optics: 1885: fourth order Fresnel lens (now on display at Fort Morgan Museum); now 155 mm (hazard warning) Current Use: Active aid to navigation. Open To Public? No. Directions:
Accessible by boat only. Cruises offered by Making Waves Charters provide views; see www.schoonerjoshua.com/fishing.html or email makewaves@earthlink.net, or call 251-443-9463. Mapquest URL: Click here to get a map to this lighthouse! Listed on the
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