Pensacola’s First Lighthouse

Pensacola’s first lighthouse, also the first on Florida’s Gulf Coast, was lighted from December 20, 1824, to December 31, 1858. Designed by Winslow Lewis, it was a conical 30-foot brick tower with 10 whale oil lamps in a 7-foot lantern. Its keepers were Jeremiah Ingraham from 1824 to 1840, Michaela Penalber Ingraham from 1840 to 1855, and Joseph Palmer(s) from 1855 to 1858.

Warrington, Florida · United States