Two lighthouses on Lake Pontchartrain, once a vital part of the maritime landscape, are still beacons for curious tourists and locals who love New Orleans history.

Metairie reader Perry Dolce, who often visits the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain, noticed a lighthouse in the area that used to be the Pontchartrain Beach Amusement Park.

His questions: “Were there two lighthouses and was the one further into Lake Pontchartrain destroyed? Was the lighthouse on the peninsula moved to the current location further inland on dry land?”

Kristi Trail, executive director of the Pontchartrain Conservancy, shed some light on the subject. Trail’s organization runs an outreach and education center out of the New Canal Lighthouse, situated at Lakeshore Drive.

Trail sets the scene in the 1830s, the ti

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