The Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse is located in Jupiter, Florida, on the north side of the Jupiter Inlet.
The site for the lighthouse was chosen in 1853. Work was interrupted from 1856 to 1858 by the Third Seminole War.
The lighthouse was completed in 1860 at a cost of more than $60,000.

Built on an Indian shell mound, the top of the 105-foot tower is 146 feet
above sea level and the light can be seen 25 miles at sea.
The tower was left unpainted for the first fifty years, but had
grown so discolored that it was painted red around 1910.

During the Civil War blockade runners brought supplies to the Confederacy
through the Jupiter Inlet, while the Union Navy tried to stop them.
Fearing that the lighthouse was an aide to the Union ships, a group of
Confederate sympathizers disabled the light and removed the machinery from the lighthouse.
A Union agent found the machinery where it had been hidden, and took it by boat to
Key West, Florida for safekeeping. The lighthouse was put back into service after the war.

Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.