4648b. (photo) New Canal Light Station, Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, La. c.1955.
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4648b. (photo) New Canal Light Station, Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, La. c.1955.
4648b. (photo) New Canal Light Station, Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, La. c.1955. Close clear view of the New Canal light station. About 1880, a substantial yacht club was built northwest of the second lighthouse tower at this site, partially obscuring the light. The Lighthouse Board decided to erect a new two-story lighthouse atop the old screwpiles, thus raising the focal plane sixteen feet. The old lighthouse was sold for scrap, and the third incarnation of the New Canal Lighthouse, shown here in 1955, was activated on June 2, 1890. Great view of the lovely keeper’s house and lantern room. b/w, 8” x 10”, clear and close. Official Coast Guard photograph with credit line on back. Dated May 1955. (VG+). $22.