"East Pascagoula River Lighthouse"

The East Pascagoula River Lighthouse sat on the west bank of the Pascagoula River at Spanish Point which now occupies an industrial complex.  With the building completed at the end of 1854, it housed one of the first two French Fresnel lenses on the Gulf Coast.  The first keeper of the light was a woman, Celestine Dupont.  After the civil war, the station was listed as 'dilapidated' and while it sat idle awaiting repairs, it was used by local health authorities as a smallpox hospital.  South of where the grain elevator now stands on the west bank of the river, there is no trace of a the lighthouse ever existing.

Signed/Numbered Prints $30, Artist Proofs $45, Original $1,200