Jeff Routzahn

Photos from the trip

Savannah River entrance

Tybee Island Light

Tybee Island, Georgia

Its real signal — watch it blink

F W — steady white light (fixed)

This light burns steady — some lights never blink.

Built
1867
First lit
1867
Height
145 ft
Focal plane
144 ft above water
Status
Still burning
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Georgia's oldest light, on guard at the mouth of the Savannah River since before the Revolution — the 1867 tower is the fourth on the site (the keeper's cottage even kept the burned-out 1741 brickwork for a chimney). Lower half painted black, upper half white, so lookouts could tell it apart. Tybee is one of the few lighthouses that still shows a steady, never-blinking white light.