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Price Creek Light
Lighthouse in North Carolina, US
Lighthouse
The Price Creek Lighthouse, also known as the Price's Creek Lighthouse, is a structure located near Southport, North Carolina.
It was one of two range lights at Price Creek in a series of lights to guide ships from Cape Fear to Wilmington, North Carolina.[1][2][3][4]
History
On August 14, 1848, $35,500 was appropriated for the construction of seven beacons and one lightship along the Cape Fear River.
Prices creek lighthouse facts
The Wood Brothers, John C. Wood and Robert B. Wood, were contracted to build the lights at Price’s Creek, and were paid a sum of $5,660 for the job.[5]
In 1849, a two-story, brick lightkeeper's house with a wooden lantern was built as one of the lights.
During the American Civil War, this served the Confederacy as a signal house to communicate between Fort Fisher and Fort Caswell. This house suffered severe storm damage, and locals carted off many of its bricks.