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Southwest Reef Lighthouse
- almost 4 years ago
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I was traveling through this town when I saw this red lighthouse along side of the bridge I was crossing. I had to turn around and find it to drone it. The story is interesting on this one and how it ended up in Berwick. Beautiful lighthouse. Wikipedia: Southwest Reef Light is a historic lighthouse built in 1856 at the end of Southwest Reef in Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana to replace lightships which had been stationed there for ten years. It served to guide vessels around the reef and into the main channel of the Atchafalaya River. It was discontinued in 1916 after a new, shorter and deeper, channel had been dredged across the reef, making it obsolete. Point Au Fer Reef Light took over its function. It sat, rusting, in shallow water[1] on the reef until 1987 when the town of Berwick, Louisiana paid to have it moved about 25 miles (40 km) upriver to a park in the town on the Atchafalaya River. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 as Southwest Reef Lighthouse.