Active: Yes
Characteristics: Flashing white every twenty seconds.
Height: 142 feet, 175 steps
DayMark: Bottom half painted white; top half, including lantern, painted black.
Lens: Original: 2nd order bivalve Fresnel lens by Barbier Benard et Turenne, floating in a trough of mercury (1907-1992). Present: original lens with modern ball bearing system (2000). Focal Plane: 132 feet.
Construction: Designer: Office of the Lighthouse Engineers. Builders: Russel Wheel & Foundry. Octagonal, pyramidal, iron skeletal tower with central stair cylinder.
Other Buildings: Originally 3 keeper's quarters, 3 barns, oil house & boat shed. Now has 2 keeper's quarters, 2 converted barns & 1 converted radio/generator building.
Coordinates:
26 15 33 N
80 04 51 WOperated by: United States Coast Guard
Visit Status: Limited access to the public. For more info. Phone (954) 942-2102 to receive Q & A messages of “Frequently Asked Questions”, or see website, www.HillsboroLighthouse.org
Days Open: 4 tours a year, see HLPS website for dates.
Facilities: Museum, Barefoot Mailman statue & 16 other points of interests.
Hours Open: First boat leaves 9:00 am (then approx. every 45 min.) Last boat leaves at 3:00 pm. Boat location: Sands Harbor Hotel north dock, 125 N. Riverside Dr., Pompano Beach 33062. Visitor Info: This iron-skeletal lighthouse is in a restricted area and normally closed to the public. It can be viewed by boat, or from Hillsboro Inlet Park at the A1A drawbridge.
Admission: HLPS tour only, see website.& click on “JOIN” for membership dues info. Contact:
Hillsboro Lighthouse Preservation Society (HLPS)
P.O. Box 610326
Pompano Beach, FL 33061-0326
E-mail: info@hillsborolighthouse.org
Link to website:
http://www.hillsborolighthouse.org/
Phone (954) 942-2102 for Q & A messages of
“Frequently Asked Questions”
or see the Q & A on the website. |
