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St Marks Lighthouse with palms and picket fence – Antique Wall Art

St Marks Lighthouse with palms and picket fence — historic image
St Marks Lighthouse with palms and picket fence. Historic image from the Lighthouses collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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St Marks Lighthouse with palms and picket fence comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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St Marks Lighthouse with palms and picket fence

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St. Marks Lighthouse, on the tip of the Florida Panhandle, is the detail that sets this scene apart: a tall brick tower rising above palm fronds and a white picket fence, a combination more often associated with Southern gardens than with coastal navigation. The lighthouse stands where the St. Marks River meets Apalachee Bay, guiding vessels through shallow waters near the old port town of St. Marks. Its palms and tidy fence hint at the domestic life that grew up around working lights like this one, where keepers tended the lamp and their families kept gardens in the sea air. Worth noticing is how the lush vegetation softens the stark form of the tower.

Original scan5,091 × 6,293 px · prints to 17 × 21 in at 300 dpi
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