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Mobile Bay or Middle Bay Lighthouse Alabama

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Mobile Bay or Middle Bay Lighthouse Alabama Photo Poster

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Mobile Bay or Middle Bay Lighthouse Alabama ....

Due to high labor costs in the post-Civil-War South, the lighthouse was prefabricated in the North and then shipped to Mobile Point, where it arrived and was activated in 1885. The 41 foot screwpile lighthouse consists of a wooden hexagonal dwelling with a roof that sloped upwards to a centrally located lantern room. The lighthouse is supported by seven legs-one in the middle, and a single leg extending from each corner of the superstructure.

1916 was a busy year. The keeper's wife gave birth to a baby that summer at the station. According to the Alabama Lighthouse Association web site the keeper brought a milk cow to the station and corralled it on a section of the lower deck because his wife was unable to nurse the newborn baby. All had to be evacuated when the station survived but was damaged by a hurricane that year.

The light was automated in 1935 and deactivated in 1967.

In 1984 the lighthouse was stabilized by Middle Bay Light Centennial Commission in preparation for the centennial celebration and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. In 2002 restoration efforts were begun to repair the light.

Location: Mobile Harbor/Mobile Bay
State: Alabama