Built: 1883

Type: Iron Skeletal Tower

Height: 91 feet

Status: Non-Active

Location: Daufuskie Island

Deactivated: 1922

Lens: Red Steamer Lens

Keepers: John Michael Doyle (1883-1890), Robert Augustus Sisson (1890-1908), Gustaf Ohman (Ohlman?) (1910-?), John A. Robertson, Jr. (assistant, 1910-1913), Arthur Ashley ("Pappy") Burn, Jr. (assistant 1913-1922

Notes: The Rear Light was a 91 feet (28 m) tall triangular, iron skeletal tower, manufactured by the Cooper Manufacturing of Mount Vernon, Ohio. John Michael Doyle, who was an employee of the manufacturer, supervised the erection of the tower on a concrete foundation on 5 acres (2.0 ha) plot about 4,350 feet (1,326 m) inland of the front light. Doyle became the first light keeper. A brick lamp house, which was also called a wick house, was built at the base of the tower to house the lamp during the day. At night, the red steamer lamp with parabolic reflector was raised on rails to a height of 81 feet (25 m). The Bloody Point Range Lights were lit on 1883.[2] A nearby brick oil house for storage of kerosene was also built.
Bloody Point is the southern end of Daufuskie Island. It was given this name because of the blood shed during the Yamasee War of 1715.
Due to erosion, the front light was moved in 1899 to a location near the rear light, which was dismantled. In its new position, it became the rear light. A 45 feet (14 m) wooden house on metal legs was placed on leased land near the shore. The metal legs rested on metal disks that could be slid across the beach as the channel shifted. This light was moved several times over the next twenty years. The range lights were deactivated in 1922.
In 1925, the lightkeeper house was sold.[9] The front range light had already been lost due to erosion. The house was sold at auction and then sold to its last light keeper, Gus Ohman. In 1926, he sold it to a former assistant light keeper, Arthur A. "Papy" Burn, Jr., who lived there for about 40 years. In 1953, Papy Burn started making wine using blackberries, elberberries, scuppernongs, and other fruit in the lamp house and/or the oil house.  Although wine making was a small operation, he called the building the Silver Dew Winery. Two small brick buildings with the sign for the Silver Dew Winery were described by Pat Conroy in his autobiographical book the Water is Wide.