The name may be familiar to you, but this sign is not located in Georgia. See if you can figure out where this sign is located. Send your idea to ebrack2@gmail.com, and include your hometown.
Jay Altman of Columbia, S.C., wrote of this Mystery Photo: “This is the Ponce de Leon Inlet Light, a lighthouse and museum located at Ponce de León Inlet in Central Florida. At 175 feet in height, it is the tallest lighthouse in the state and one of the tallest in the United States. It is located between St. Augustine Light and Cape Canaveral Light.” The photo came from Mickey Merkle of Berkeley Lake.
Also recognizing it were Stewart Ogilvie, Rehobeth, Ala.; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; Jane Bane of Lawrenceville; and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, who added: “Originally built in 1887, this is actually the third lighthouse built at this location. The first was built in 1835, but was destroyed by a storm soon after it was completed. The second light was also built in 1835, and also destroyed that very same year during the Second Seminole War (aka Florida War). It was not until 1887 that the current structure was completed and has continued to survive the perilous weather in the area. It is, at 175 feet high, the tallest lighthouse in Florida and the third tallest lighthouse in the USA, surpassed only by Cape Hatteras Light in North Carolina (210 feet) and Cape Charles Light in Virginia (191 feet).”
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