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Half Moon Reef Lighthouse
Port Lavaca, Texas
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Name: Half Moon Reef Lighthouse / Halfmoon Reef Lighthouse
Nearest City: Port Lavaca, Texas
Location: Bay Front Park in Port Lavaca
Body of water: Lavaca Bay
Style of lighthouse: Hexagonal
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Owned by: Calhoun County Historical Society
Managed by: Calhoun County Historical Society
National Register of Historic Places: No
Texas Historical Marker: Since 1985
Do the grounds have lodging: No
Web Cams: No
On a license plate: No
On a USPS Stamp: No
Haunted: No

Other Lighthouse Information:
Half Moon Reef was a hexagonal screw pile lighthouse originally in Matagorda Bay, Gulf of Mexico. This lighthouse was moved twice. It was one of the many screw pile type lighthouses built on the Texas Gulf Coast, but the only one that still stands. It is now in Bay Front Park where it serves as Port Lavaca's visitor center at the end of the causeway on Highway 35.

The Lighthouse Hunters Experience:
After we took our late afternoon pictures of the Half Moon Reef lighthouse we went inside the Visitor's Center. We were told that the past Christmas 2004 (only 3 months earlier) they had a foot of snow. This was their 1st white Christmas in 80-100 years. The snow took a few days to go away. I was shocked to find out that Texas could even have snow. We bought a beautiful post card with the lighthouse surrounded by snow. Notice the United States and Texas flags flying at the lighthouse.

Photographed it: March 14, 2005

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Latitude: 28.6369 Longitude: -96.61728

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Halfmoon Reef Lighthouse
Photo taken on March 14, 2005
Halfmoon Reef Lighthouse
Photo taken on March 14, 2005
Halfmoon Reef Lighthouse
Photo taken on March 14, 2005
Halfmoon Reef Lighthouse
Photo taken on March 14, 2005
Halfmoon Reef Lighthouse
Photo taken on March 14, 2005
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