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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
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 ...
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.
The lighthouse is a 4-story stone pyramidal tower with a square base, with a 7 m high terrace and modern beacon. [1] The lighthouse is painted tan and the beacon is black. It emits, at a focal height of 13 m, a brief white flash of 0.2 seconds per 2 second period. Its range is 5 nautical miles (approximately 9 km). [3]
The first lighthouse built at this location was a small, square wooden structure erected in 1872, after the U.S. Congress, appropriated $4,000 to the project. This was in large part due to Senator Thomas Ferry's influence. [3] In 1880 the lighthouse service installed a new light atop a metal pole in a protective cage.
The lantern was lit by a sixth-order Fresnel lens in 1856. By 1873, a lighthouse inspector's report noted substantial erosion, exposed wooden pilings, and poor overall condition of the light station, expressing concern that a strong storm could carry it away. Shortly thereafter, the Lighthouse Board decided to replace the entire structure. The ...
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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.