Volusia Bar Light, Wooden lighthouse site at the St. Johns River inlet into Lake George, Florida, US
Volusia Bar Light was a wooden structure with a square tower and lantern positioned on top of a dwelling, supported by stone and wooden foundations. The building marked a shallow passage where the Saint Johns River flows into Lake George.
The structure was built in 1886 to guide ships using a fourth-order Fresnel lens for navigation. The main light operation stopped in 1916, but signal equipment continued functioning years afterward.
The light took its name from Volusia Bar, the shallow passage at the mouth of the St. Johns River where it enters Lake George. Mariners realised something was wrong in 1938 when the lamp stood unattended; keeper A. J. Anderson had been missing for over a week before his body was found floating face-down in the river, his neck broken. The murder was never solved.
The site is located at coordinates 29.2067°N and 81.5794°W and is visible only as foundation pilings rising from the water. Reaching the location typically requires a boat or joining a guided tour rather than accessing it by land.
The keeper A. J. Anderson was murdered in 1938; his body was found floating face-down in the river after he had been missing for over a week, an autopsy showed his neck had been broken, and the case was never solved.
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