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The Anclote Keys Light is a lighthouse built in 1887 on Anclote Key, the largest of the Anclote Keys. It is a skeletal square pyramidal tower, painted brown, with a black lantern. After the lighthouse was automated in 1952 the tower and other buildings at the site were often vandalized, interfering with the operation of the light. The Coast Guard determined that the light was no longer needed and deactivated it in 1984. The site was eventually turned over to the State of Florida and added to Anclote Key Preserve State Park. As of 2003 the lighthouse has been restored and relighted using a reproduction fourth-order Fresnel lens. Anclote Key is accessible only by boat.[4][5][6]

Anclote Keys Light

Anclote Keys lighthouse as it appeared in 2005
Location	Anclote Key Tarpon Springs Florida United States
Coordinates	28°10′1.3″N 82°50′41.0″W
Tower
Constructed	1887
Foundation	piling
Construction	cast iron skeletal tower
Automated	1952
Height	102 feet (31 m)
Shape	skeletal tower with central cylinder, balcony and lantern
Markings	brown tower, black lantern
Operator	Anclote Key Preserve State Park[1][2]
Heritage	National Register of Historic Places listed place
Light
First lit	2003
Deactivated	1984-2003
Focal height	110 feet (34 m)
Lens	third-order Fresnel lens (original), replica of fourth-order Fresnel lens (current)
Range	19 nautical miles (35 km; 22 mi)
Characteristic	Fl (4) W 30s.
Anclote Key Lighthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Area	less than one acre
Architect	US Lighthouse Service
Architectural style	cast-iron Skeletal Structure
NRHP reference No.	99000410[3]
Added to NRHP	April 1, 1999

It is listed as Anclote Key Light number 1555 in the USCG light lists.[7]

Head keepers

• James Gardner (1887 – 1888)
• Samuel E. Hope, Jr. (1888 – 1889)
• James M. Baggett (1889 – 1891)
• Robert S. Meyer (1891 – 1914)
• Thomas A. Moody (1914 – 1923)
• Robert S. Meyer (1923 – 1933),
• James L. Pippin (1933 – at least 1949)

See also

• List of lighthouses in Florida
• List of lighthouses in the United States

References

Further reading

• McCarthy, Kevin M. (1990). "Anclote Key Lighthouse". Florida Lighthouses. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press.

External links

• "Anclote Key Preserve State Park". Florida Park Service. Archived from the original on 26 June 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2014.

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