Bolivar Lighthouse
[Excerpt from "Bolivar!" by A Pat Daniels]

The Lighthouse was built in 1872 and towers 117 ft. above sea level. It guided mariners for 61 years and was retired in 1933
when it was replaced by the South Jetty light. It is now privately owned and not open to visitors.

It is made of brick sheathed in cast iron plates riveted together. It once glistened with a white-and-black banded
exterior, but now is covered with rust and is almost a uniform black.

The 52,000 candle-power beacon guided ships through the channel safely from the Gulf of Mexico into the Port of Galveston.

The lighthouse withstood the onslaught of three of the worst storms recorded on the Texas Gulf Coast, the 1900 and the 1915 hurricanes and Hurrican Ike in 2008.