Lake Pontchartrain by Catherine Campanella

Author:Catherine Campanella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2011-10-11T16:00:00+00:00

The Bayou St. John Light was the first lighthouse built in America outside the 13 original colonies. The station was established on Bayou St. John at the lake in 1811. The original lighthouse was destroyed by a storm in 1837. In 1838, a new, 48-foot tower was constructed. By 1855, a cottage-type structure on pilings replaced the older lighthouse. The light was deactivated in 1878. It no longer exists. (Courtesy U.S. Coast Guard.)

The first Port Pontchartrain Light (also called the Milneburg Lighthouse) was built in 1832 and was replaced with the existing structure (pictured) in 1855. It was damaged during the Civil War but repaired and relighted in 1863. After a 15-foot storm surge killed an estimated 2,000 people in the 1893 hurricane, survivors were cared for and taken in by Ellen Wilson, the female light keeper. The light was deactivated in 1929. Built on piers in the lake with an adjacent keeper’s house, it would later be surrounded by concrete in Kiddieland at the Pontchartrain Beach amusement park. Having withstood the ravages of Hurricane Katrina, this century-and-a-half-old structure can now be found in the University of New Orleans Technology Center. (Courtesy U.S. Coast Guard.)

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