Brazos Santiago Light - Texas

On the eve of World War II, on March 7, 1940, a message went out on Coast Guard radio station as a notice to mariners: "Brazos Santiago Lighthouse superstructure reported destroyed by fire...light and radiobeacon out of commission." A fire that day swept through the sixty-one-year-old wooden superstructure of the Brazos Santiago station, completely destroying it and damaging the upper ends of the wrought iron piles.