Middle Bay Lighthouse — Strange Alabama

Middle Bay lighthouse is a hexagonal-shaped cottage style screw-pile lighthouse offshore from Mobile, Alabama, in the center of Mobile Bay activated in 1885. Legend says in 1916 the light keeper's wife gave birth to a baby that summer at the station but was unable to nurse. The keeper brought a dairy cow to the light house and corralled it on a section of the lower deck.  All had to be evacuated when the station survived but was damaged by a hurricane that year.

In 1935, the light at the station was automated and with no keeper on site, the house fell into disrepair before finally being deactivated in 1967.

In 2002 restoration efforts were begun to repair the lighthouse.