Tybee Island Light Station & Museum, Tybee Island, Georgia, USA

Ordered by General James Oglethorpe, Governor of the 13th colony, in 1736, the Tybee Lighthouse has been guiding mariners to a safe entrance into the Savannah River for over 270 years. 601

Tybee Island Light Station: 30 Meddin Dr, Tybee Island, Georgia, USA
Date Picture Taken: December 2022

The Tybee Island Light Station is one of America’s most intact having all of its historic support buildings on its five-acre site. Rebuilt several times the current light station displays its 1916 day mark with 178 stairs and a First Order Fresnel lens (nine feet tall).

Summer Kitchen

Inside has displays of the history of the lighthouse

This must be how the lighthouse appeared when it was first constructed.

The lighthouse has undergone numerous changes and developments over the course of its long history, which stretches back several centuries.

Head Keeper’s Cottage

Upstairs

Fuel Stroage

Changes to the lighthouse

Who Controls the Lighthouse

Into the lighthouse

Go down

To the beach in front of the lighthouse

Stopped at a river marshland while going back

Stopped at another area nearby

Spanning view