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The Fort Sumter Range Lights are range lights to guide ships through the main channel of the Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The original front light was built at Fort Sumter and the original rear light was in the steeple of St. Philip's Church in Charleston, South Carolina.〔Clary, Margie Willis, ''The Beacons of South Carolina'', Sandlapper Publishing Co., Inc., Orangeburg, SC, 2005, pp. 107-108, ISBN 0-87844-176-X.〕 Both lights were lit from 1893 to 1915 to make range lights.〔 Today the Fort Sumter Range is the main approach channel to Charleston Harbor. Fort Sumter, which was the site of the first battle of the Civil War, is now a National Monument. St. Philip's is a National Historic Landmark that was built in 1836.〔Putnam, George R., ''Lighthouses and Lightships of the United States'', Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1917, pp. 99, ISBN 0-87844-176-X.〕 ==History== The front light at Fort Sumter completed in 1857.〔U.S. Senate, ''Executive Documents of the Senate of the United States: Third Session Thirty-Fourth Congress'', A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer, Washington, DC, 1857, p. 600.〕 The front light was a white, fifth order Fresnel lens.〔 The station was destroyed during the Civil War. A temporary light with a steamer lens was in place after the war ended and Fort Sumter was reoccuppied by federal troops.〔Secretary of the Treasury, ''Report of the Secretary of the Treasury for the Year 1865'', Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1865, p. 196.〕 Later the light was rebuilt. With little chance of war, this lighthouse was the major activity at Fort Sumter from 1876 to 1898.〔Barnes, Frank , ''Fort Sumter National Monument, South Carolina'', National Park Service. Historical handbook series, no. 12, Washington, DC, 1962.〕 In 1893, the front light was destroyed by a hurricane. The tower was replaced with a light green metal skeletal tower. The fog signal was a bell mechanically struck with a double blow every 15 s. After the rear light was extinguished in 1915, a radio beacon was added. The radio beacon was moved to Sullivan's Island lifesaving station in 1950. The light was deactivated in the early 1950s.〔〔 The rear range light was a white lantern in the steeple of St. Philip's Church in Charleston that was lit in 1893.〔 The height of the lantern was . The ''Annual Report of the Light-House Board'' reported that the electric apparatus for lighting the gas burner in the locomotive headlight was repaired in 1901.〔U.S. Light-House Board, ''Annual Report of the Light-House Board Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1901.'', Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1901, p. 123.〕 This light was removed in 1915.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fort Sumter Range Lights」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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