Gilbert's Bar

Gilbert's Bar House of Refuge; source: Pioneer Life, Palm Beach County History OnlineOn their northward journey along the Atlantic coast, the Expedition party noted that the water was very low south of the Indian River narrows at Hobe Sound between Gilbert's Bar and Jupiter. Gilbert's Bar, sometimes called Saint Lucie Rocks, is near present-day Stuart, Florida, about two miles north of the St. Lucie Inlet. It is the site of a House of Refuge. In The U.S. Life-Saving Service, a federal government agency, operated a series of houses of refuge and life saving stations along U.S. coasts to rescue and shelter shipwrecked sailors and passengers. It began in 1848 and ultimately merged into the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915. Five houses of refuge were constructed on Florida's east coast in 1876 and another five were added by 1885-1886, along with two life saving stations. The Gilbert's Bar House of Refuge was built in 1876 and operated until 1914 when it became a Coast Guard station.

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