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LocationSouthport, North Carolina
Coordinates33°56′9″N 77°59′23″W / 33.93583°N 77.98972°W / 33.93583; -77.98972
Tower
Constructed1849
ConstructionBrick
Height26 feet (7.9 m)
ShapeConical
Light
Deactivatedca. 1860s
Focal height31 feet (9.4 m)
Lens8 lamps with 18-inch (460 mm) reflectors

The Price Creek Lighthouse, also known as the Price's Creek Lighthouse, is a structure located near Southport, North Carolina. It was one of two range lights at Price Creek in a series of lights to guide ships from Cape Fear to Wilmington, North Carolina.[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ Bansemer, Roger, Bansemer's Book of Carolina & Georgia Lighthouses, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, FL, 2000, pp. 50-53, ISBN 1-56164-194-4.
  2. ^ Harrison, Tom, and Jones, Ray, Endangered Lighthouses, Globe Pequot Press, Guildord, CT, 2001, p. 40, ISBN 0-7627-0815-8.
  3. ^ Roberts, Bruce, and Jones, Ray, Southern Lighthouses: Outer Banks to Cape Florida, 3rd ed., Globe Pequot Press, Guildord, CT, 2002, p. 27, ISBN 0-7627-1243-0.
  4. ^ Zepke, Terrance, Lighthouse of the Carolinas, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, FL, 2002, pp. 57-60, ISBN 1-56164-148-0.

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