List and pictures of famous lighthouses, one of them the Egmont Key Lighthouse

Operating lighthouses in Florida

Alligator Reef Light, four miles (7 km) east of Indian Key in the Florida Keys

St. Augustine Light near St. Augustine, Florida

Gasparilla Island Light, Boca Grande, Florida

Alligator Reef Light, near Indian Key (1873) (still in use)
Amelia Island Light, Fernandina Beach (1820) (still in use) (U.S. Coast Guard housing)
Amelia Island North Range Light, Amelia Island
American Shoal Light, near Florida Keys (1880) (still in use)
Anclote Keys Light, near Tarpon Springs (1887)
Boca Grande Light - please see Gasparilla Island Light
Cape Canaveral Light, Cape Canaveral (1868) (still in use)
Cape Florida Light, Key Biscayne (1846) (museum)
Cape San Blas Light (1885)
Carysfort Reef Light, near Key Largo (1852) (still in use)
Cape St. George Light, St. George Island (1852)
Cedar Key Light, Seahorse Key, near Cedar Key (1854) (marine laboratory)
Charlotte Harbor Light
Cosgrove Shoal Light - please see Unmanned reef lights of the Florida Keys
Crooked River Light, near Carrabelle (1895)
Dames Point Light, St. Johns River
Dog Island Light
Dry Tortugas Light, Loggerhead Key, Dry Tortugas (1858) (still in use)
Egmont Key Light, Tampa Bay (1858) (still in use)
Fowey Rocks Light, off Key Biscayne (1878) (still in use)
Garden Key Light, Fort Jefferson (1876)
Gasparilla Island Lights, Boca Grande (1890) (still in use) (museum)
Hen and Chickens Shoal Light - please see Unmanned reef lights of the Florida Keys
Hillsboro Inlet Light, Pompano Beach (1907) (still in use) (Coast Guard housing)
Jupiter Inlet Light, Jupiter (1860) (still in use) (museum)
Key West Light, Key West (1846) (museum)
Loggerhead Key Light - please see Dry Tortugas Light
Molasses Reef Light - please see Unmanned reef lights of the Florida Keys
Northwest Passage Light, near Key West
Pacific Reef Light - please see Unmanned reef lights of the Florida Keys
Pensacola Light, Pensacola Bay (1859) (still in use)
Pensacola Bar Beacon - please see Pensacola Light
Ponce de Leon Inlet Light, town of Ponce Inlet (1887) (still in use) (museum)
Port Boca Grande Light - please see Gasparilla Island Light
Pulaski Shoal Light - please see Unmanned reef lights of the Florida Keys
Rebecca Shoal Light
Sand Key Light, near Key West (1853) (still in use)
Sanibel Island Light (1884) (still in use)
Seahorse Key Light - please see Cedar Key Light
Smith Shoal Light - please see Unmanned reef lights of the Florida Keys
Sombrero Key Light, south of Key Vaca in Marathon, Florida (1858) (still in use)
St. Augustine Light, Anastasia Island (1874) (museum)
St. George Island Light - please see Cape St. George Light
St. Johns Light Station
St. Johns River Light (1859)
St. Joseph Bay Light - please see St. Joseph Point Light
St. Joseph Point Light, near Port St. Joe (1902) (private residence)
St. Marks Light, Apalachee Bay (1842) (still in use)
Tennessee Reef Light - please see Unmanned reef lights of the Florida Keys
Tortugas Harbor Light - please see Garden Key Light
Unmanned reef lights of the Florida Keys
Volusia Bar Light, near Deland, Florida

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Egmont Key

Egmont Key as a whole has a rich history. The entire island is on the National Register of Historic Places, and is a National Wildlife Refuge and a state park. At the time the first lighthouse was being built in 1848, Colonel Robert E. Lee was making a survey of the southern coast, and recommended that defensive works be built on Egmont Key because of its strategic location. In the 1850s Egmont Key was used as a temporary holding area for Seminoles before they were shipped to the Indian Territory. Early in the Civil War, Confederate blockade-runners used the island as a base. Union forces captured the island in July 1861 and used it as a base for attacks on Confederate ships and positions in the Tampa area. The Union also used the island as a military prison and a refuge for southern pro-Union sympathizers. A cemetery for Union and Confederate dead was opened on the island in 1864. The cemetery was closed in 1909 and the bodies were moved to military cemeteries at other locations.

Fort Dade

Egmont Key Lighthouse without lantern, U.S. Coast Guard Archive

At the start of the Spanish-American War, Fort Dade (named for Major Francis L. Dade, who was killed in a battle in the Second Seminole War) was established on Egmont Key to protect Tampa Bay from a Spanish attack. It consisted of several coastal artillery batteries protecting the main ship channel into Tampa Bay , as well as a secondary channel to the south of the island. A hospital at Fort Dade was used to quarantine all American soldiers returning from Cuba for ten days. During World War I Fort Dade was used as a training center for National Guard Coast Artillery Units. The fort was deactivated in 1921. Egmont Key was put to military use again during World War II, as a harbor patrol station and an ammunition storage facility.

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