Tybee Island Light Station

General James Oglethorpe ordered the first structure here in 1732, and the station has been rebuilt, burned, and rebuilt again ever since. Confederate forces torched the tower in 1862 as they retreated to Fort Pulaski, leaving only the lower sixty feet standing; the current lighthouse rises from that surviving base. A restoration begun in 1999 brought it back to its 1916–1966 black-white-black daymark. The beacon still works. The first-order Fresnel lens still turns.