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This model of Florida’s Sombrero Key Lighthouse was made in 1876 for display at the Centennial Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. It is now on display at the Key West Lighthouse Museum in Florida. You will note the plaque on the lighthouse reads Coffin’s Patch Lighthouse. This was the first site chosen for what would later become the Sombrero Key Lighthouse. Work on the 160-foot high iron structure was still in the beginning stages when a hurricane blew through on Aug. 29, 1856, and destroyed the work platform. After the storm, further plans for construction were put on hold. It was then decided that Sombrero Key would be a more stable location and construction crews abandoned the Coffins Patch site and reconvened at Sombrero Key in 1857.
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Models of the Old U.S. Lighthouse Service
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