>> Click to enlarge << The 135-foot-tall Alligator Reef Lighthouse, four ... Photo by: Don Summerville

The United States Coast Guard has declared five Florida lighthouses as excess property to be disposed of through the General Services Administration which will offer the lighthouses for free to any qualified applicant. The lighthouses, all of which are on the Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List of Endangered Lighthouses are American Shoal, Carysfort Reef, Sand Key, Alligator Reef, and Sombrero Key.

>> Click to enlarge << Built in 1880, the 109-foot-tall American Shoal ... Photo by: James Wolfrum

If no qualified applicant wants the lighthouses, then they will be sold at auction to the highest bidder.

>> Click to enlarge << The 120-foot-tall Carysfort Reef Lighthouse is ...

>> Click to enlarge << Designed by famed engineer and Civil War General ... Photo by: Eric Martin

>> Click to enlarge << Designed by famous lighthouse engineer Isaiah ...

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