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Peggys Point Lighthouse, also known as Peggys Cove Lighthouse, is an active lighthouse and an iconic Canadian image. Located within Peggy's Cove , Nova Scotia , it is one of the busiest tourist attractions in the province and is a prime attraction on the Lighthouse Trail scenic drive.
Grant is a 2020 American television miniseries directed by Malcolm Venville. Based on Ron Chernow's bestselling 2017 non-fiction book, the three-part series chronicles the life of Ulysses S. Grant, the eighteenth President of the United States. It premiered on May 25, 2020 on the History channel. [1] [2] [3]
Route 333 is a collector road in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.. It is located in the Halifax Regional Municipality, connecting Upper Tantallon at Trunk 3 with Beechville at Trunk 3.
The cove was the scene of a youth novel by Bryan Doyle called You Can Pick Me up at Peggy's Cove (1976), which was made into a film directed by Don McBrearty and into a video released by Beacon Films, Inc., in 1982. In 2016 it was announced that a Peggy's Cove–themed resort had opened in Thailand. [9]
Swissair Flight 111 crashed 8 km (5 mi) off the coast of Peggy's Cove. Pictured is the community's iconic Peggys Point Lighthouse in 2005, with St. Margarets Bay seen below the lighthouse on the right. Flight 111 took off from New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport at 20:18 EDT (00:18 UTC) on 2 September 1998.
Montauk Point Lighthouse U.S. Lighthouse Service 1789–1939: Montauk Point Lighthouse: Yes 69000142: March 2, 2012 Mystic Connecticut Mystic Seaport Museum: U.S. Life-Saving Service 1848–1915: New Shoreham Life Saving Station [17] No N/A N/A Also: Brant Point Light replica Nahant Massachusetts Nahant Life Saving Station U.S. Life-Saving ...
The Coast Guard decommissioned the lighthouse in 1994. In 2003 Milwaukee County leased the lighthouse and keepers quarters to the North Point Lighthouse Friends and they began restoration of the tower and keepers quarters. A $984,000 grant was used to restore the light station and it re-opened to the public as a maritime museum in 2007. [5]
Grant Cottage State Historic Site is an Adirondack mountain cottage on the slope of Mount McGregor in the town of Moreau, New York. Ulysses S. Grant , the 18th President of the United States , died of throat cancer at the cottage on July 23, 1885.