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  2. File:Black and white postcard of the wooden lighthouse at the ...

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    File:Black and white postcard of the wooden lighthouse at the top of the harbour at Port Burwell, ON. The road runs down to the bridge over Otter Creek.jpg

  3. Point Wilson Light - Wikipedia

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    Point Wilson's first lighthouse was built in 1879 by the United States Lighthouse Service as a companion to the Admiralty Head Light built some 18 years earlier on the eastern side of Admiralty Inlet. A square wooden tower projecting from the roof of a two-story, Cape Cod–style keeper's quarters held a fixed fourth-order Fresnel lens. The ...

  4. Cape Lookout Lighthouse - Wikipedia

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    The first lighthouse at Cape Lookout was completed and lit in 1812 at a cost of more than $20,000, which Congress authorized in 1804. It took eight years to build. [4] It was the fourth lighthouse to be built in North Carolina and was a 96-foot-high brick tower with wooden shingles painted with red and white horizontal stripes.

  5. Gay Head Light - Wikipedia

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    c1880 woodcut print of the first lighthouse on Martha's Vineyard built in 1799 and located above the Gay Head clay cliffs. This wooden lighthouse was octagonal. According to this print, there was a lighthouse keeper's house nearby.

  6. Conservation and restoration of lighthouses - Wikipedia

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    Wood was either used for construction on the exterior or in combination with masonry and/or iron to build components of the lighthouse (ex. stairs). The largest cause for deterioration of wood in lighthouses is from exposure to moisture. This exposure is normally the result of direct and prolonged exposure to damp conditions.

  7. Oldest Wooden Lighthouse in America Is for Sale in Poplar ...

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    Built in 1831, the structure -- listed as the oldest wooden lighthouse in. By Erika Riggs For many years, the Poplar Point lighthouse was the beacon guiding ships in Wickford Harbor, a protected ...

  8. White Shoal Light, Michigan - Wikipedia

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    The highly visible diagonal Daymark paint job, sometimes described as red and white 'candy cane stripe', is the only 'barber pole' lighthouse in the United States. [5] [27] However, black and white helical daymarks do appear on Cape Hatteras Light and St. Augustine Light. Consequently, the State of Michigan has used it as an icon to generate ...

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