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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