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Half Moon Reef Lighthouse was a hexagonal, three-story cypress building that stood on a platform supported by piles in Matagorda Bay. Supplies reached the lighthouse twice yearly, and its beacon extended 12 miles to warn mariners of sandbars and reefs. Its restoration was a community project.
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