Screwpiles: The Forgotten Lighthouses

Chart commissioned by the American Lighthouse Council. Image from U.S.L.H.S. The lamps used in the James River screwpile lighthouses would have been Argand gravity-feed single-fountain lamps from 1865 to approximately 1892. The Funck-Heap lamp was installed in all James River lighthouses after March 1892.

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