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Turtle Rock Lighthouse
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Updated in December 2011
Name: Turtle Rock Lighthouse / Schuylkill River Lighthouse
Nearest City: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Location: 15 Kelly Drive Boathouse Row Philadelphia, PA 19130 215-765-3585
Body of water: Schuylkill River
Style of lighthouse: Integral
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Organizations:
Groups to join: Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association - GLLKA
Owned by: The Sedgeley Club
Managed by: The Sedgeley Club
National Register of Historic Places: No
Do the grounds have lodging: No
Web Cams: No
On a license plate: No
On a USPS Stamp: No
Haunted: No

Other Lighthouse Information:
This lighthouse on the eastern shore of the Schuylkill River was privately built for $2,663 by Frank Thurwanger. Then in 1902, a new larger building was built to encompass the lighthouse. This boathouse was designed by Arthur H. Brockie. The #15 boathouse on the historic boathouse row can be rented for private functions and can be lit on special occasions. Across the river is Route 76.


The Lighthouse Hunters Experience:
We first saw the Turtle Rock lighthouse on a cloudy day in 2002 and photographed it with our 35 mm camera. Near the end of our lighthouse vacation in 2007 while up in Maine, my digital Nikon 5700 began to have problems. So we came back home to borrow my sister's camera before heading south to Virginia for two lighthouse cruises with the Chesapeake Chapter of the USLHS.



Photographed it: April 27, 2002 / June 21, 2007

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Latitude: 39.96997 Longitude: -75.18988

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Schuylkill River Lighthouse
Photo taken on June 21, 2007
Schuylkill River Lighthouse
Photo taken on June 21, 2007
Schuylkill River Lighthouse
Photo taken on June 21, 2007
Schuylkill River Lighthouse
Photo taken on April 27, 2002
Schuylkill River Lighthouse
Photo taken on June 21, 2007
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