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Photo By:
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Debra Baldwin
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In 1916, a newly dredged channel to the Atchafalaya River cut through the Point Au Fer Reef and necessitated a lighthouse to mark it. There was also a fog bell, carbide house, boathouse, and five beacon lights at the location. In 1975, the light was decommissioned and replaced by a skeletal tower. When no one wanted to take over immediate stewardship of the abandoned lighthouse buildings, the Coast Guard shamefully burned them down in September of the following year.
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Story:
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A Visit to Louisiana’s Lost Lighthouses
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