Cape San Blas Rentals

Cape San Blas Rentals

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Cape San Blas is part of a peninsula in Gulf County, Florida extending westward from the mainland of Florida, separating St. Joseph Bay to the north from the Gulf Of Mexico to the south. The St. Joseph Peninsula extends northward from the west end of Cape San Blas. It is approximately 10 miles south southwest of the town of Port St. Joe.

A first Cape San Blas Light was completed in 1849 with an appropriation of $8,000 made 2 years earlier. The shoals running out from the cape extended 4 or 5 miles and made it dangerous for all vessels nearing the coast. If the light had been high enough it could have been seen for 30 km or 40 km and afforded protection to vessels going to and from Tortugas to New Orleans, but the light from the 85 or 90 foot tower was visible only half that distance. The site was "deemed to be entirely secure from overflow or inundation" by the collector of customs at Apalachicola, Florida, who selected it, with the assistance of "two of our most experienced pilots."

History

Cape San Blas was home to a Confederate Saltworks where 150 bushels of salt a day were processed by evaporation of seawater. This halted in 1862 when a landing party from the Union ship, the USS Kingfisher, destroyed the saltworks.

Cape San Blas has had 4 lighthouses. The first, built in 1847, collapsed during a gale on August 23 - 24 of 1851. Congress appropriated $12,000 for a second brick tower lighthouse for the cape which was finally finished in November 1855, but it was destroyed on August 30, 1856, when another hurricane struck Cape San Blas. On May 1, 1858 a 3rd lighthouse was completed and lit. During the Civil War the lighthouse was not in commission but resumed operations July 23, 1865. Over the years, erosion began eating away at the lighthouse. In 1883 the 4th iron frame lighthouse was constructed.

Lighthouses of Florida
Amelia Island Light, Amelia Island North Range Light, Anclote Keys Light, Cape Canaveral Light, Cape San Blas Light, Cape St. George Light, Cedar Key Light , Charlotte Harbor Light, Crooked River Light, Dog Island Light , Egmont Key Light, Gasparilla Island Lights, Hillsboro Inlet Light, Jupiter Inlet Light, Pensacola Light, Ponce de Leon Inlet Light, Sanibel Island Light, St. Augustine Light, St. Joseph Point Light, St. Marks Light, Volusia Bar Light

St. Joseph Bay is a bay on the Gulf Coast of the USA state of Florida, located in Gulf County between Apalachicola and Panama City. Port St. Joe is located on St. Joseph Bay. St. Joseph Bay is bounded on the east by the mainland, on the south by Cape San Blas, and on the west by the St. Joseph Peninsula. The north end of the bay is a relatively narrow opening to the Gulf of Mexico. The bay is approximately 15 miles long north to south, and 6 miles wide at its widest point.