Currituck Lighthouse












Photograph by
© Alfred Flattum

March 1983
Photograph by
© Alfred Flattum

June 1985
Photograph by
© Alfred Flattum

"Fall" 1982
(stairs inside of the lighthouse)
Photograph by
© Anne Shelton
Photograph by
© Anne Shelton
Photograph Courtesy Of
© North Carolina Division Of Travel and Tourism
Photograph by
© Barbara Nelson Cheek






Currituck Beach Light was built in 1875, and is located in Currituck county. The tower, is 158 feet tall. The walls are almost 6 feet thick at the base, to help the tower withstand Atlantic storms.

To distinguish Currituck from neighboring lighthouses, its red bricks were left unpainted, and they remain so.

The twelve-foot-tall lantern at the top still holds the station's original first-order, bull's-eye Fresnel lens. The automated light flashes white every twenty seconds, and can be spotted from up to nineteem miles away.

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