Who Controls the Tybee Lighthouse?

The Tybee light passed through British, Georgian, and federal hands; in 1861 retreating Confederates damaged it and stripped its lens before Union forces seized the island in 1862, using it to help bombard Fort Pulaski.

Who Controls the Tybee Lighthouse? is a historical marker in Tybee Island, Chatham County. It is one of 339 historical markers documented in Chatham County, among 480 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 32.0224, -80.8456 near Tybee Island. The nearest cataloged historic site is Life at the Tybee Island Light Station (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Journal of the Light-House Station, Savannah River Light, and The 1st Tybee Island Day Mark • The 2nd Tybee Island Day Mark 1742-1768.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.