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The light house board gives notice that on or about September 15, 1902, a fixed red light of the fourth order will be established in the old light house, standing in five feet of water, on the southwesterly end of Halfmoon reef, making oft southwesterly from Palacios Point, northerly side of Matagorda bay. The focal plane of the light will be 35 feet above the water and light will be visible eleven miles, the eye of the observer 15 feet above the sea. The light will illuminate 270 degrees of the horizon, the dark sector lying between SE. ¾ S. and SW. ¾ W. (bearings from a vessel). The light house is a screw-pile structure, the pile foundation and roofs are black, and the superstructiure and lantern are white.

The Evening Post: Charleston, South Carolina, Friday, August 15, 1902