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Combahee Bank Light

Combahee Bank Light
Map
LocationSouth Carolina, United States Edit this at Wikidata
Coordinates32°28′N 80°26′W / 32.467°N 80.433°W / 32.467; -80.433
Tower
Constructed1868
ConstructionScrewpile
ShapeCottage
Light
Deactivatedca. 1876

The Combahee Bank Lighthouse is a former lighthouse in St. Helena Sound on the border of Beaufort and Colleton Counties in South Carolina. It was built in 1868 and abandoned around 1876.[1]

The lighthouse was a cottage-style screwpile lighthouse that was built to warn of shoals. It was near the location of the current automated light, which is on a dolphin.[1][2]

In 1902, a daymark was put on the old structure. Due to settling, the daymark was replaced with a lighted buoy in 1913. Most of the old structure was removed in 1925 by a buoy tender's derrick.[1]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 Clary, Margie Willis, The Beacons of South Carolina, Sandlapper Publishing Co., Inc., Orangeburg, SC, 2005, pp. 102-103, ISBN 0-87844-176-X.
  2. Light List, Volume III, Atlantic Coast, Little River, South Carolina to Econfina River, Florida (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2007.