[2][3][4][5] 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.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 as Southwest Reef Lighthouse.

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