Carysfort Reef Light
Monroe County, US
Carysfort Reef Light is located on Carysfort Reef east of Key Largo, Florida. The lighthouse has an iron-pile foundation with a platform, and a skeletal, octagonal, pyramidal tower, which is painted red. The light was 100 feet (30 m) above the water. It was the oldest functioning lighthouse of its t
ype in the United States until it was decommissioned in 2015, having been completed in 1852. The light last installed was a xenon flashtube beacon. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
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- Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge nature_reserve · 12 km away
- Key Largo island · 16 km away
- Jewfish Creek Bridge bridge · 18 km away
- John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park monumenti · 21 km away
- Caribbean Club in Key Largo cinema · 21 km away