{{Short description|Lighthouse in North Carolina, US}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox lighthouse | name = Federal Point Light | image_name = | caption = | location = Kure Beach, North Carolina | coordinates = | yearbuilt = 1866 | yearlit = | automated = | yeardeactivated = ca. 1879<br>No longer in existence | foundation = Piers | construction = | shape = Cottage | marking = | height = | elevation = | lens = | currentlens = | intensity = | range = | characteristic = | fogsignal = | admiralty = | NGA = | ARLHS = }}
'''Federal Point Light''' was a lighthouse at Federal Point near Kure Beach in New Hanover County, North Carolina. It was an active light from about 1866 to around 1879.<ref name="roberts">Roberts, Bruce, and Jones, Ray, ''Southern Lighthouses: Outer Banks to Cape Florida'', 3rd ed., Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, CT, 2002, p. 28, {{ISBN|0-7627-1243-0}}.</ref><ref name="zepke">Zepke, Terrance, ''Lighthouse of the Carolinas'', Pineapple Press, Sarasota, FL, 2002, pp. 77-78, {{ISBN|1-56164-148-0}}.</ref>
Federal Point Light was on the inland side on the southern end of Pleasure Island, which is a barrier island. It was near Fort Fisher and North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher and Kure Beach.
==History== One or more lighthouses were built at Federal Point prior to the Civil War.<ref name="stick">Stick, David, ''Bald Head: A History of Smith Island and Cape Fear,'' Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wendell NC, 1985, p. 38, 71, {{ISBN|0-916107-00-0}}.</ref> A light tower was destroyed by Confederate troops in early 1860s.<ref name="roberts"/>
After a new inlet opened south of Federal Point, a new lighthouse was constructed in 1866. It was a cottage-style lighthouse on piers. The light was extinguished in 1879<ref name="stick"/> or 1881.<ref name="roberts"/> A rock seawall, eventually known as "The Rocks" was built in 1881 to close the inlet. The lighthouse burned in 1881.<ref name="roberts"/><ref name="zepke"/>
==References== <references/> {{Lighthouses of North Carolina}} {{authority control}}
Category:Buildings and structures in New Hanover County, North Carolina Category:Lighthouses in North Carolina Category:Lighthouses completed in 1866 Category:1866 establishments in North Carolina Category:Buildings and structures demolished in 1881