Jordan Point Light
 The second Jordan Point Light in 1885 | |
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| Location | Jordan Point on the south bank of the James River |
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| Constructed | 1855 |
| Construction | wood |
| Shape | Freestanding tower |
| Fog signal | Bell [2] |
| Light | |
| First lit | 1856/1875(1870?) |
| Deactivated | 1927 |
| Focal height | 35 feet (11 m) |
| Lens | sixth-order Fresnel lens |
| Characteristic | Fixed white |
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The Jordan Point Light was a lighthouse located on Jordan Point on the James River in Prince George County, Virginia, near the south end of the present Benjamin Harrison Memorial Bridge.
History
[edit | edit source]The history of this station is unclear, but some sources indicate that a light station was first established on Jordan Point in 1855. This consisted of a keeper's house with a masthead light on the roof. This arrangement was replaced circa 1875 (possibly as early as 1870) by a separate 35-foot (11 m) pyramidal wooden tower that housed a sixth order Fresnel lens and a fog bell. A new keeper's house was constructed in 1888.[1]
In 1927 the station was deactivated and the wooden tower was later demolished. In 1941 a new steel skeleton tower was erected on the site of the old tower; this skeleton tower is still in service as the rear light of the Jordan Point Range, Light List #2-12420.[2] Although the wooden tower is long gone the keeper's house built in 1888 still stands. It was extensively renovated in 2009 and is a private residence.
Notes
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
- Jordan Point Light, from the Chesapeake Chapter of the United States Lighthouse Society
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