# Castle Pinckney Light

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{{Short description|Lighthouse in South Carolina, US}}
{{Use American English|date=July 2025}}
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| image           = Castle Pinckney - showing early light beacon.jpg
| caption         = Castle Pinckney from an 1861 illustration in ''[Frank Leslie's Weekly](/source/Frank_Leslie's_Weekly)''
| location        = Shutes' Folly Island, [Charleston County, South Carolina](/source/Charleston_County%2C_South_Carolina)
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'''Castle Pinckney Light''' is a former [lighthouse](/source/lighthouse) on Shutes' Folly Island in [Charleston Harbor](/source/Charleston_Harbor), [Charleston County, South Carolina](/source/Charleston_County%2C_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](/source/Castle_Pinckney) was a c.   1810 U.S. coastal fortification, which was built upon the site of Fort Pinckney, a 1797 [fort](/source/fort) destroyed during an 1804 [hurricane](/source/hurricane).

Castle Pinckney was occupied by [Confederate forces](/source/Confederate_States_Army) during the [Civil War](/source/American_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](/source/Fresnel_lens).<ref name ="clary"/><ref name="scspa"/>

In 1878, Castle Pinckney was transferred to the [Lighthouse Board](/source/United_States_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](/source/United_States_Department_of_War) for a time.

The lighthouse was probably destroyed in 1938.<ref name="clary"/><ref name="scspa"/>

==References==
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{{Lighthouses of South Carolina}}
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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

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