For the past 170 years, the brick Sabine Pass Lighthouse has stood tall above the entrance to the Sabine River, which separates southwestern Louisiana from Texas. Construction started on the coastal lighthouse in 1854 and it was lit in 1857. It has survived some of Texas and Louisiana’s fiercest hurricanes over the past century and a half. Its unique design features brick supports that fan out near the bottom of the structure. Sabine Pass Lighthouse has survived Civil War battles, innumerable storms, surging floodwaters, a marsh fire, vandalism, and long periods of neglect and indifference.

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