Mosquito Inlet Light (Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse), Florida, before 1928

postcard

Postcard; photolithograph; view of Mosquito Inlet Light, FL; in foreground are two people walking up path approaching light; light at center; printed at bottom left "Mosquito Inlet Light, Seacoast of Florida."; printed on reverse "Mosquito Inlet Light/ On the seacoast of Florida, about 1 mile to the northward/ and westward of the entrance to Mosquito Inlet, and 52 miles/ SSE from St. Augustine Light House."; published by the Hugh C. Leighton Co. No. 28241 [Mosquito Inlet Light, built 1835, rebuilt 1887, known as Mosquito Inlet until 1927, then as Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse, aerobeacon installed in 1970, light re-established in the 1980's; ancillary buildings are now museums, see F. Ross Holland Jr. "Great American Lighthouses" p 174]