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The development of modern technology, including GPS, means lighthouses are no longer essential for navigation, said John Kelly of the GSA's office of real property disposition.
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 March 2022, Friends of the Chicago Harbor Lighthouse (FOCHL), a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charity was formed with the mission to preserve, restore and celebrate the Chicago Harbor Lighthouse. In December of 2023, FOCHL submitted an application to the National Park Service for transfer of ownership of the lighthouse from the City of Chicago to ...
This determination is reported to the GSA and notice is given that application made be made for the structure. In this phase non-profit and/or historical organizations may apply; if application is made and accepted, the lighthouse is simply transferred to the applicant subject to compliance with requirements to maintain the light and make it ...
Lightship LV-1: 1856: 1930: Nantucket New South Shoal (1856 – 1892) Martins Industry (1892 – 1896) Frying Pan Shoal (1896 – 1911) Martins Industry (1911 – 1922) Savannah (1922 – 1930) Donated to the Sea Scouts in 1930. Later ran aground on the banks of the Merrimack River in a flood that occurred in 1936. [B] [4] Lightship LV-2: 1849: ...
Unlike The Game Awards’ Steam Deck OLED giveaway, the Lenovo Legion Go competition requires that entrants be located in the US, and anybody outside of the US is ineligible to enter. Other than ...
The structure was officially turned over to the U.S. Lighthouse Society in June 2009, but the light remains active. Located in the northeast corner of a U.S. Navy "danger zone", overnight occupation of the lighthouse is prohibited, per agreement between the GSA and the U.S. Navy's Naval Air Systems Command. [6]