{{Short description|Lighthouse in South Carolina, US}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox lighthouse | name = Castle Pinckney Light | image = Castle Pinckney - showing early light beacon.jpg | caption = Castle Pinckney from an 1861 illustration in ''Frank Leslie's Weekly'' | location = Shutes' Folly Island, Charleston County, South Carolina | coordinates = {{coord|32|46|25.1|N|79|54|39.6|W|type:landmark|display=inline,title}} | yearbuilt = {{start date and age|1855}} | yearlit = | automated = | yeardeactivated = {{end date and age|1917}} | foundation = | construction = | shape = | marking = | height = | focalheight = {{convert|50|ft|m|0}} (1855) | lens = 5th order Fresnel lens (1855) | currentlens = | intensity = | range = | characteristic = | fogsignal = | admiralty = }} '''Castle Pinckney Light''' is a former lighthouse on Shutes' Folly Island in Charleston Harbor, Charleston County, South Carolina.<ref name ="clary">Clary, Margie Willis, ''The Beacons of South Carolina'', Sandlapper Publishing Co., Inc., Orangeburg, SC, 2005, pp. xii-xiii, 101-102, {{ISBN|0-87844-176-X}}.</ref><ref name="scspa">{{cite web|url=http://www.scspa.com/spa/community/history_environ/history1.asp|title=History of Castle Pinckney|accessdate=2008-08-09|publisher=South Carolina State Port Authority|archive-date=2011-01-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110109013255/http://scspa.com/spa/community/history_environ/history1.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="nps">{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/glimpses3/glimpses3c.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501190732/http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/glimpses3/glimpses3c.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 1, 2008|title=Castle Pinckney National Monument|accessdate=2008-08-09|work=Glimpses of Historical Areas East of the Mississippi River |publisher=U.S. National Park Service}}</ref><ref name="depot">{{cite web|url=http://www.lighthousedepot.com/lite_explorer.asp?action=display_details&LighthouseID=3158|title=Castle Pinckney Light|accessdate=2008-08-09|publisher=Lighthouse Depot|archive-date=2011-06-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614083240/http://www.lighthousedepot.com/lite_explorer.asp?action=display_details&LighthouseID=3158|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Castle Pinckney was a c. 1810 U.S. coastal fortification, which was built upon the site of Fort Pinckney, a 1797 fort destroyed during an 1804 hurricane.
Castle Pinckney was occupied by Confederate forces during the Civil War.
==History== In 1855, a yellow tower with a focal plane of {{convert|50|ft|m|0}} was built at Castle Pinckney. It had a 5th order Fresnel lens.<ref name ="clary"/><ref name="scspa"/>
In 1878, Castle Pinckney was transferred to the Lighthouse Board for use as a lighthouse depot for the Sixth District. A new lighthouse was constructed in 1880. A third lighthouse was constructed in 1890, and it was made a lighthouse station.<ref name ="clary"/><ref name="scspa"/>
In 1916, the lighthouse depot was moved to Tradd Street in Charleston. The lighthouse station was deactivated in 1917, and Castle Pinckney was transferred to the War Department for a time.
The lighthouse was probably destroyed in 1938.<ref name="clary"/><ref name="scspa"/>
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Lighthouses of South Carolina}} {{authority control}}
Category:Lighthouses in South Carolina Category:Buildings and structures in Charleston County, South Carolina Category:Lighthouses completed in 1855 Category:Lighthouses completed in 1880 Category:Lighthouses completed in 1890