Jct. of Bellevue Front and Canton Sts., Berwick, Louisiana. County/parish: St. Mary.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 12, 1991. NRIS 91001152.
1 contributing structure.
Southwest Reef Light is a historic lighthouse built in 1856 at the end of Southwest Reef in Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana to replace lightships which had been stationed there for ten years. It served to guide vessels around the reef and into the main channel of the Atchafalaya River. It was discontinued in 1916 after a new, shorter and deeper, channel had been dredged across the reef, making it obsolete. Point Au Fer Reef Light took over its function.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/73974820