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Fort Sumter Range Lights

Lighthouse · Charleston County, South Carolina

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Fort Sumter Range Lights is a lighthouse in Charleston County, South Carolina. South Carolina has 21 lighthouses on record at Wayfarrow, 9 of them in Charleston County.

It was deactivated in 1915.

Current sources show this lighthouse no longer stands. Status check, 2026-11: The lighthouse on Fort Sumter was destroyed in the Civil War, rebuilt, and then wrecked by the 1893 hurricane and rebuilt again. The station was shut down in 1950, and no lights stand on Fort Sumter today. The current Fort Sumter Range lights are on skeletal towers elsewhere in the harbor. It stands at 32.7522° N, 79.8747° W.

Key facts

Deactivated1915
Coordinates32.75222, -79.87472

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Questions

Where is Fort Sumter Range Lights?

Fort Sumter Range Lights is in Charleston County, South Carolina, at 32.7522, -79.8747.

How many lighthouses are in Charleston County?

Charleston County, South Carolina has 9 lighthouses on record at Wayfarrow.

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