Southwest Reef Lighthouse

The light spent most of the Civil War dark. Confederates put it out in its third year of service, and its lamps, lens and lantern-room glass were carried off to St. Martinville. They came back in the summer of 1865, and the light was relit on September 1, 1865, six years to the day after it was first lit. Rust threatened the tower later. It was lifted off its pilings on October 8, 1987, moved ashore to Berwick, and finished in 1996 with doors, windows and a replica lantern room.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum — 4.8 mi
  A Louisiana State Museum in Patterson on the world's largest cypress sawmill town and the Wedell-Williams racing planes, with a theater and changing exhibits.
• Grevemberg House Museum — 18 mi
  Franklin's 1851 Greek Revival townhouse, the official St. Mary Parish museum, saved from demolition by one vote and set in the Franklin Historic District on Bayou Teche.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 20 mi
  A National Historic Landmark house of about 1790 on Bayou Lafourche, built by enslaved people and home to two Whites, a governor and a Chief Justice, with an exhibit on the bayou's history.
• Chitimacha Museum — 23 mi
  The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Charenton: the tribe's account of its territory, the French wars and enslavement, the land held in trust, and river cane baskets.

More markers nearby

• Morgan City Floodwalls — 0.4 mi
• Charles Morgan — 0.5 mi
• Atchafalaya River — 0.5 mi
• Civil War Years — 0.7 mi