Aransas Pass Light Station: A Historic Texas Lighthouse
By: Christopher Long
Published: November 1, 1994
Aransas Pass Light Station, on Harbor Island in Aransas County, was built in 1855 by the United States government to facilitate navigation on Aransas Bay. The station has a tapered octagonal brick tower, three wooden auxiliary dwellings, and a radio shack. It is the second oldest lighthouse on the Texas coast and the oldest surviving structure in the Aransas Pass-Corpus Christi area. A state historical marker was placed at the site in 1973, and in 1977 the station was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry.
Christopher Long, “Aransas Pass Light Station,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed March 09, 2026, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/aransas-pass-light-station.
Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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- November 1, 1994
