Roanoke River Lighthouse

Originally constructed in 1886 by the US Lighthouse Service, the Roanoke River Lighthouse served as a navigational beacon to mariners on the Albemarle Sound. Its light marked the entrance to the Roanoke River, the main commercial passageway upstream to Plymouth and Williamston. The lighthouse remained in service until 1941, when it was decommissioned by the US Coast Guard. In 1955 it was moved to Edenton by Mr. Emmett Wiggins. Of the more than twenty lighthouses that marked the rivers and sounds of the Albemarle and Pamlico, it is the last known surviving example of a square sided, screw-pile lighthouse.

Edenton, North Carolina · United States