****Please note that January 17, 2012 through February 16, 2012 the Lighthouse will be closed to the public for preservation work but the Head Keepers, 2nd Assistant Keepers, Summer Kitchen, Raised Cottage, Gift Store, and Museum will remain open for visitors .**** 

 

Ordered by General James Oglethorpe, Governor of the 13th colony, in 1732, the Tybee Island Light Station has been guiding mariners safe entrance into the Savannah River for over 270 years. The Tybee Island Light Station is one of America's most intact having all of its historic support buildings on its five-acre site. Rebuilt several times the current lightstation displays its 1916 day mark with 178 stairs and a First Order Fresnel lens (nine feet tall).