2-752-542 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Bar Lighthouse, Mouth of St. John's River', 1872. Derelict lighthouse on the coast of Florida, south eastern USA. 'The first lighthouse was built in 1830 near the river's mouth...By 1835, the encroaching sea had undermined the lighthouse, and it was torn down and replaced by a second lighthouse' [shown here]. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. I, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1872]