St. Simons Island

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=50 BGCOLOR="#333366" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>St. Simons lighthouse</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=165 BGCOLOR="#993300" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="132" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 35 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id107.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Workboats at Annapolis"><U><B><IMG SRC="007151d0.gif" border=0 width="21" height="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id114.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" Edna E. Lockwood"><U><B><IMG SRC="008151d0.gif" border=0 width="21" height="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="35" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="20" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" 11 x 14 Pen Ink"><U><B><IMG SRC="00d0d1d0.gif" border=0 width="13" height="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="27"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" 11 x 14 Pen Ink"><U><B>Return to 11" x 14" pen and ink page</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=430 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div>   <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  </FONT>           </div> <bR> <div> <B>The first St. Simons lighthouse was erected in 1810 and was a 75 foot octagonal tower.  In 1862, when the Confederate forces were forced to abandon the Island, they blew up the lighthouse to prevent its use by the Yankees.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Construction on a new lighthouse was started in 1868 but took four years to complete because of outbreaks of malaria and other diseases then common under such swampy working conditions.  The new lighthouse is 106 feet high and is located at the southern tip of St. Simon’s Island directly across from Brunswick. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The lighthouse is now automated and remains active.  The beautiful keeper’s house of Flemish laid brick adjoins the Lighthouse and now houses the local Museum of Coastal History. Both the lighthouse and the keeper’s house are open to the public.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>As a final point of interest, a lighthouse keeper died a violent death here in 1880 during a fight with his assistant lighthouse keeper.  Local legend claims that his ghost haunts the lighthouse.</B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>