Mobile Bay Middle Ground Light
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| Location: | Mobile Harbor, Mobile Bay, Alabama |
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| Coordinates WGS-84 (GPS) |
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| Foundation: | Screw piling with platform |
| Construction: | Wood |
| Year first lit: | 1885 |
| Year first constructed: | 1885 |
| Deactivated: | 1967 |
| Automated: | 1935 |
| Tower shape: | White dwelling with red piles. Tower Shape: Hexagonal without lantern |
| Height: | 41 feet |
| Original lens: | Fourth Order, 1885 |
| Characteristic: | Fixed white varied by a red flash every 30 seconds, Bell struck by machinery every 5 seconds |
Mobile Bay Middle Ground Light is a hexagonal-shaped structure with a lantern placed on top. It sits on pilings in the Gulf of Mexico just offshore of Mobile, Alabama in Mobile Bay, Alabama
Historical Information from the Coast Guard web site:
- The station was activated in 1885.
- 1916 was a busy year. The keeper's wife gave birth to a baby that summer at the station. According to the Alabama Lighthouse Association web site the keeper brought a milk cow to the station and corralled it on a section of the lower deck because his wife was unable to nurse the newborn baby. All had to be evacuated when the station survived but was damaged by a hurricane that year.
- The light was automated in 1935.
- Lighthouse was deactivated in 1967.
- In 1984 the lighthouse was stabilized by Middle Bay Light Centennial Commission in preparation for the centennial celebration.
- Mobile Middle Bay Lighthouse was placed on National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Reference #74000429
- In 1996 the Coast Guard loaned the Fresnel lens from the lighthouse to the Ft. Morgan Museum for public display.
- In 2002 restoration efforts were begun to repair the light.
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