Transportation on the island is by walking, by rental bicycles , or by rental golf carts. More information can be found at the Bald Head Island Transportation website.
The Frying Pan Tower was once a U. Coast Guard station, decommissioned in Information on taking a trip to the former light station thirty-four miles off the coast and for reservations can be found on the Frying Pan Tower website, or by calling Southport, NC Turn left at the light at Moore St. NC continues. Bear right at the traffic circle.
Turn right into Deep Point Marina. Follow the signs for passenger departure and follow instructions for parking. Old Baldy Lighthouse is a short walk from the ferry landing on the island. Visit the Bald Head Island Ferry Information website or call for schedules and more information. The light, however, shows well from a distance. Bryan Morse was the next keeper of the lighthouse, and upon his death in Francis Morse, his son, took charge of the light.
Francis continued to pursue his former occupation as a river pilot, leaving his family to care for the light a good portion of the time. Some problems with Bald Head Lighthouse included its location and illumination. Positioned some four miles from the eastern end of the island and equipped with a minor light, the lighthouse was unsuccessful in guiding ships safely past Frying Pan Shoals.
The apparatus, 15 lamps and inch reflectors, is inadequate to the requirements of the service of an ordinary seacoast light, while this is one of the special cases requiring extraordinary means to insure any amount of good. Careful observation has, however, shown that it is very seldom seen twelve miles; and then only resembling a star of the fifth or sixth magnitude. This light is Considered by the pilots as of very little, if indeed of any use at all, for the local purposes of the harbor; while it is perfectly clear that it is of no value to the navigator in guiding him around and clear of these shoals, which, in the opinion of navigators, are only exceeded in importance by those off Nantucket.
This light should either be reduced to a mere harbor light or removed to the pitch of the cape, and given an elevation sufficient to insure a first order light being seen, under ordinary circumstances, outside of the, shoals.
This light as a first class seacoast light, and a first-class light-vessel placed on the shoals, would tend greatly towards increasing the safety of navigation. A lightship was placed on the shoals in , and a total of nine different vessels served at the station through , when a four-legged tower replaced the last lightship. Bald Head Light was discontinued in when the screwpile Federal Point Lighthouse was built eight miles upstream, near the present Fort Fisher ferry landing.
After Federal Point Lighthouse was deactivated in upon the closure of New Inlet Channel by the Engineer Department, Old Baldy was returned to service along with a beacon on the nearby beach, which formed a range to help mariners safely enter the river. On March 3, , the characteristic of Bald Head Lighthouse was changed from fixed white to a red flash every thirty seconds through the installation of a new fourth-order lens.
Later that year, a foot-long stone jetty was built to protect the tower from erosion, and this work likely saved the tower from being toppled by a hurricane that struck in September Since the closure of New Inlet Channel, the augmented flow of water in the channel near the lighthouse was rapidly washing away the shore.
Keeper James H. Dosher reported that an earthquake shook the tower for ten seconds at p. The shaking was accompanied by a hissing and rumbling noise in the earth. Leave as Family. These organizations have no control over the content found on NCBeaches. Crystal Coast. New Hanover Beaches. Brunswick Beaches. NC Lighthouses. Bald Head Island. Bodie Island. Cape Hatteras. Reprinted with permission from the Old Baldy Foundation, Inc.
Old Baldy is the oldest standing lighthouse in North Carolina. It has maintained its original form and location for over years. The most important purpose of Old Baldy was to mark the Cape Fear River entrance for the maritime sailors.
It was never intended as a light for Frying Pan Shoals. Old Baldy was built in of soft red bricks covered with stucco. In the early days the lighthouse keeper would white wash Old Baldy every two years. When Old Baldy was deactivated in the lighthouse was abandoned. The white wash protected the stucco. When it was discontinued large pieces of the stucco began to fall off the lighthouse.
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