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Ten lighthouses that for generations have stood like sentinels along America's shorelines protecting mariners from peril and guiding them to safety are being given away at no cost or sold at ...
The General Services Administration plans to sell four lighthouses through public auctions and give away six others.
The lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Penfield Reef Lighthouse in 1990. [ 1 ] [ 12 ] In 2015, the Coast Guard executed a substantial rehabilitation project at the lighthouse, designed by architect Marsha Levy of the Coast Guard's Civil Engineering Unit Providence, to address the damage from Hurricane Sandy.
In 2022, the General Services Administration announced that the lighthouse was put up for auction with a minimum bidding price of $15,000. [2] [6] Will Powell a GSA spokesman, explained the difficulties of auctioning off the property to include no docking facility for boats, as well as no water, sewage, electricity or gas. [6]
The first lighthouse in the Dry Tortugas was on Garden Key, and became operational in 1826. [7] After several proposals for a new lighthouse on the "outer shoals" of the Dry Tortugas, a new lighthouse was built on Loggerhead Key and completed in 1858 at a cost of US$35,000 ($1.23 million in 2023), which was the amount that had been projected to ...
Gravelly Shoals Light is an automated lighthouse that is an active aid to navigation on the shallow shoals extending southeast from Point Lookout [7] on the western side of Saginaw Bay. The light is situated about 2.7 miles (4.3 km) offshore and was built to help guide boats through the deeper water between the southeast end of Gravelly Shoals ...
The R.I. Secretary of State website shows that Belaying Pin LLC was registered on Oct. 30, 2023, with an address of 3500 Thayer Court, Aurora, Illinois. Property Details The 5,085 square feet ...
The Sturgeon Point Light Station is a lighthouse on Lake Huron in Haynes Township, Alcona County, northeastern lower Michigan. [8] [9] Established to ward mariners off a reef that extends 1.5 miles (2.4 km) lakeward from Sturgeon Point, [1] it is today regarded as a historic example of a Cape Cod style Great Lakes lighthouse. [10]