The Alabama News Center — Groups dream of rescuing beloved Alabama lighthouse from time, weather, erosion
By: Emmett Burnett / Alabama Living
With binoculars focused on a tiny plot of sand off the coast of Dauphin Island, a lighthouse comes into focus. Even from three miles away, one can see the changes. Sand Island is hardly an island, and its lighthouse needs help.
Twelve years ago, I visited South Alabama’s beloved lighthouse. I climbed in its window and beheld with wonder the century-old iron spiral stairs that led to the top of the 131-foot-tall tower.
You can’t do that anymore as the lighthouse is sealed off. The island, which once was 400 acres, is now a small rock pile on which the massive brownstone brick cone stands.
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