Point Au Fer Reef Light Explained

Coordinates:29.3722°N -91.3842°W
Yearbuilt:1916 (original house)
Yearlit:1975 (current skeleton tower)
Foundation:Pile with platform
Construction:Wood
Shape:Square tower on 1½ story keeper's house
Marking:White with black lantern
Characteristic:Flashing white 6s (c1965)
Fogsignal:Bell, then horn

The Point Au Fer Reef Light was a lighthouse built in 1916 on Eugene Island in Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana to mark a new channel across Point Au Feu Reef.[1] [2] It replaced Southwest Reef Light as the entrance light for the Atchafalaya River. The light was deactivated and replaced by a skeleton tower in 1975. The Coast Guard then offered it to the South Lafourche Cultural and Historical Society, which declined, so the Coast Guard burned it down.

Notes and References

  1. 2004. NOAA Chart: Point Au Fer to Marsh Island, 1/80,000. 11351.
  2. 2010-01-11.