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Visit Florida's tallest lighthouse

Visited by over 200,000 people each year, the Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1998. The lighthouse tower and museum are located 10 miles south of Daytona Beach, about an hours drive from Orlando, and are open to the public year round. The Ponce Inlet Lighthouse is the tallest lighthouse in Florida and the second tallest lighthouse in the nation. Visitors who climb the 175 foot lighthouse tower are treated to a magnificent view of the Florida coastline and Halifax River from Daytona Beach to New Smyrna Beach.

Completed in 1887, the Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station was built when the area was known as Mosquito Inlet. After decades of restoration by the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse Preservation Association, it stands today as one of the best preserved, most complete Light Stations in the nation

The lighthouse began with the purchase of ten acres of land on March 21, 1883. Francis Hopkinson Smith, a noted writer and engineer, designed the lighthouse, and it was declared by lighthouse inspectors to be "the most beautiful and best proportioned tower in the district." Chief Engineer Orville E. Babcock drowned in the inlet as construction was to begin in 1883, but the tower was completed four years later. The kerosene lamp in the First-Order fixed Fresnel lens (made by Barbier et Fenestre in Paris in 1867) was first lighted on November 1, 1887, by Keeper William Rowlinski. The light could be seen 20 miles to sea.

The lighthouse is unique because it has survived along with all seven of it's original buildings. The days of the uniformed lighthouse keeper are long gone, but visitors can still peek into the lives of the brave men and women that once manned the rocky inlet.

Two of the original three keeper's residences have been turned into museums displaying navigation instruments, pirates' treasure, photographs and early lighthouse keeper uniforms. The third home has been restored with period authentic furnishings, depicting life at the turn of the century. The old woodshed now outfitted with wooden benches, takes visitors back in time with a 20 minute video presentation about the beginnings of the lighthouse. Other authentic lighthouse buildings consist of the pump house, privy and of course the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse itself.

Directions
I-95 exit 85, east on Dunlawton Ave. across the Port Orange Bridge to Daytona Beach Shores, south 5 miles on Atlantic Avenue, west on Beach Street, turn left onto Peninsula Drive.

Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse Museum
4931 South Peninsula Drive
Ponce Inlet, FL 32127
(904) 761-1821