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Managing Organization:
Hillsboro Lighthouse Preservation Society
Telephone:
954-942-2102
Website: http://www.hillsborolighthouse.org
Email: info@hillsborolighthouse.org
Contact Address Information:
P.O. Box 326
Pompano Beach
Florida,
33061-0326,
United States
Tower Height: 137 Height of Focal Plane: 136 Description of Tower: Octagonal, skeletal iron tower, upper part black and lower part white.
This light is operational
Other Buildings?
1907 1.5 story keepers house, barracks, recreation building, garage, generator building. Date Established: 1907 Date Present Tower Built: 1907 Date Automated: 1974 Optics: 1907: Second order Fresnel lens Current Use: Active aid to navigation, Coast Guard houseing. Open To Public? Yes, on tour days for members. Directions:
The best place from which to photograph the lighthouse is a beach south of the inlet. Public access to the beach is via NE 16th Street (.1 mile north of FL 844, 4.4 miles south of FL 810, Hillsboro Boulevard). Listed on the
National Register of Historic Places Keepers: Alfred A. Berghell (1907-1911), Henry A. Keys (first assistant 1907), Robert H. Thompson (second assistant, 1907-1908), Thomas E. Albury (first assistant 1908), Samuel R.A. Curry (second assistant, 1908-1909), Clifton H. Lopez (first assistant 1909), W.A. Lopez (first assistant 1909), Harvey E. Behringer (second assistant 1909-1910), Ramon Pinder (first assistant 1909-1910), George B. Neumian (first assistant 1912-c.1919?), Michael L. Shauahan (second assistant 1910-1911), Thomas Knight (1911-1936), William M. Sharit (second assistant 1911), John T. Corcoran (second assistant 1911), Lawrence F. Meyer (second assistant 1911-?), C. Malloy (first assistant 1919), R. Nivens (second assistant c. 1919-1921), J.E. Powell (first assistant c. 1920-?), Judge Becton Isler (second assistant 1920-1939), Benjamin F. Stone (assistant c. 1920s; principal keeper 1936-1942), Warren Bennett (Coast Guard, 1943-1951), H. Kandone (Coast Guard, 1951), J. S. Childs, Jr. (Coast Guard, 1954), J. Miller (Coast Guard, 1955), F. Edelkamp (Coast Guard, 1956), F. Tucker (Coast Guard, 1957), J. Evdokimoff (Coast Guard, 1958), D. F. Thurston (Coast Guard, 1961), F. Warren (Coast Guard, 1962), J.D. Lloyd (Coast Guard, 1966), J. T. Rodgers (Coast Guard, 1968), D. H. Steerman (Coast Guard, 1969), Donald W. Partridge (Coast Guard, 1972)
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