East Rigolets Light

The East Rigolets Light was an early lighthouse marking the entrance to the Rigolets from Lake Borgne in Louisiana.

While construction funds were provided in 1831, the light was not completed until two years later, built according to the usual plan of the time of a conical masonry tower housing an array of ten Argand lamps with reflectors;[2] this was eventually replaced with a fourth-order Fresnel lens.

[2] Like other southern lights, it was extinguished at the commencement of the Civil War, but was relit in November 1862.

In 1868, the lantern was replaced, with the top of the tower being rebuilt to hold it.

[2][3] The tower remained as a landmark for many years thereafter, finally being sold in 1923 and destroyed sometime thereafter.