JUPITER INLET LIGHTHOUSE

The Jupiter Lighthouse painting was done at sunrise from a water perspective. The Jupiter Lighthouse not only serves to warn approaching ships of the treacherous reefs so closely located to the shipping lanes in the Gulf Stream, but it is said that the light's beam also served the early mariners northbound from the tropics as a landfall from which they could catch the northern flowing current to aid them in making good time to northern ports.

In 1895 great changes took place in sight of the lighthouse. The railroad came through. The Fort Jupiter reservation was opened to home owners and the dredging of the inland waterway began. The age of the steamship began to pass away and even before the century had turned the Celestial railroad was dismantled and sold.