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.