West Palm Beach - Spring 2008 » Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse

West Palm Beach - Spring 2008
Visit with Jack and Betty on Singer Island

Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse

We visited the lighthouse and museum

Designed by George G. Meade, later Federal commander at Gettysburg. First lighted July 10, 1860. Dark during the War Between the States and its mechanism hidden by Southern sympathizers. Relighted June 28,1866, it is not missed a night in over 100 years. Early keepers: Thomas Twiner, J.F. Papy, Wm. B. Davis, James A. Armour, Joseph A. Wells, Thomas Knight, Charles Seabrook. Operated by the United States Coast Guard since 1939.

	105 steps to the top







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