ST. AUGUSTINE LIGHTHOUSE

The St. Augustine Lighthouse is on the north end of Anastasia Island.The tower, built in 1874, is owned by the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum, Inc. (SAL&M), a not-for-profit maritime museum and private aid-to-navigation. St. Augustine was the site of the first
lighthouse established in Florida by the new, territorial, American Government in 1824. According to some archival records and maps, this "official" American lighthouse was placed on the site of an earlier watchtower built by the Spanish as early as the late 16th century.