The Pensacola Bar Beacon, with the Pensacola Lighthouse in the background
Constructed
1879
Construction
lumber
Height
26 ft (7.9 m)
Shape
square pyramid
Deactivated
1900s
Focal height
55 ft (17 m)
Lens
sixth order Fresnel lens
Range
11 nmi (20 km; 13 mi)
Characteristic
F W
Pensacola Lighthouse and Keeper's Quarters
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Area
less than one acre
Built
1859 (1859)
NRHP reference No.
74000622[1]
Added to NRHP
July 15, 1974
The Pensacola Light is a lighthouse at Pensacola Bay, in Florida. It is the third iteration of what was originally a lightship, the Aurora Borealis, and remains an aid to navigation.
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
The PensacolaLight is a lighthouse at Pensacola Bay, in Florida. It is the third iteration of what was originally a lightship, the Aurora Borealis, and...
Naval Air Station Pensacola or NAS Pensacola (IATA: NPA, ICAO: KNPA, FAA LID: NPA) (formerly NAS/KNAS until changed circa 1970 to allow Nassau International...
haunted locations such as the Pensacola Victorian Inn, The PensacolaLight House, the Pensacola Gray House, and the Pensacola Little Theater. A portion of...
Hornet's screening ships included heavy cruisers Northampton and Pensacola, light cruisers San Diego and Juneau, and six destroyers. Hammel, Carrier...
residence before it was returned to St. Joseph Bay in 1979. While the old light remains a private residence, its current owner has restored its former appearance...
The siege of Pensacola, fought from March 9 to May 10, 1781, was the culmination of Spain's conquest of West Florida during the Gulf Coast Campaign of...
again revived for its fourteenth season. Wilson (mentioned in Keeper of the Light) and the new team were not featured, instead, Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves...
Gay Memorial Day Weekend in Pensacola is an annual beach gathering of thousands of LGBT locals and tourists during the Memorial Day holiday weekend. The...
Fernandina, snow occurred. December 5, 1886: At Pensacola, following a heavy rain and wind storm, light snow fell from 4:25 pm to 8:20 pm, accumulating...
(59 m) - Cape Hatteras Light, North Carolina 191 feet (58 m) - Pensacola Lighthouse, Florida 185 feet (56 m) - Point Vicente Light, California 183 feet...
The Pensacola Museum of History at the University of West Florida, formerly the T. T. Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum, is a museum of history located...
and Power Company Pensacola Electric Company Pensacola Electric Terminal Railway Company Pensacola Street Railway Company Pensacola Terminal Company Sanford...
pastor, author, and founder of the Pensacola Bible Institute in Pensacola, Florida (not to be confused with the Pensacola Christian College in the same city)...
(GPC) was a U.S. electric utility founded in 1925 and headquartered in Pensacola, Florida. It had over 450,000 customers in 10 counties and 71 towns in...
Jupiter Inlet, the other on the Gulf coast on Santa Rosa Island near Pensacola, Florida. A house of refuge was planned for the Marquesas Keys, but was...
The Pensacola Convoy is a colloquialism for a United States military shipping convoy that took place in late 1941 as the Pacific War began. The name was...
Vegas, NV 1986 - Mylon Watkins - Las Vegas, NV 1987 - Roy Jones Jr., Pensacola, FL 1988 - Ray McElroy - Los Angeles, CA 1989 - Mario Munoz 1990 - Ravea...
Lafayette, LA 1985 - Robert Guy - Fort Worth, TX 1986 - Roy Jones Jr. - Pensacola, FL 1987 - Todd Foster - Great Falls, MT 1988 - Skipper Kelp - Born in...
streetcar operators took place in Pensacola, Florida from April 5 to May 13, 1908. It was staged by employees of the Pensacola Electric Company over a company...
aeromedical training at the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute at NAS Pensacola in Pensacola, Florida, and was designated as a Naval Flight Surgeon. She was...
acquaintance of Walters, reported seeing an orange light along the treetops while driving across the Pensacola Bay Bridge on March 17, 1988. When she got home...
lighthouse keepers used at the time in their everyday lives to maintain the light as well as historic objects such as the Fresnel lens. In addition to navigation...