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Winter scene, from a postcard mailed in 1906. The Stamford Harbor Ledge lighthouse was built in 1882 and was a sparkplug lighthouse cast iron tower, manufactured in Boston. [4] The light, 3,600 feet (1,100 m) from shore, was sold to a private party in 1955. Several lighthouse keepers and their families lived in the lighthouse at various times.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
Southwest Ledge Light is an active lighthouse marking the main entrance channel to the harbor of New Haven, Connecticut.Completed in 1877, it was one of the first to be built on a cylindrical iron foundation, an innovation by Maj. George H. Elliot to address shifting ice that is regarded to be very important in lighthouse design.
The heart of the sanctuary is Stellwagen Bank, an underwater plateau stretching 19 miles (17 nmi; 31 km) north to south, and 6 miles (5.2 nmi; 9.7 km) across at its widest near its southern end. The bank is, on average, 100 to 120 feet (30 to 37 m) below the surface, while surrounding waters to the west are over 300 feet (91 m) deep and to the ...
Gural is a former chairman of the board of the Times Square Business Improvement District, the Alliance of Resident Theatres New York, and the Eldridge Street Synagogue. [4] He serves on the board of directors of the Real Estate Board of New York, the UJA Federation, Eugene Lang College, the U.S.O.;
The changing expectations sent Treasury yields and mortgage rates sharply higher. The average 30-year mortgage rate was around 6.62% on Monday, up nearly half a percentage point in a single week ...
Seated next to McMullen was her husband of nearly 80 years, a WWII veteran who is himself just a few months away from turning 100. The couple share three sons and four grandchildren. "We've ...
New London Ledge Light. New London Ledge Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the Thames River in the U.S. state of Connecticut, at the mouth of New London Harbor. It was built in 1909 in the Second Empire style and was automated in 1987. In 1990, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The lighthouse is owned and maintained by the ...