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The Presque Isle Light was completed on July 1, 1873. Once finished, a fourth-order Fresnel lens was installed in the tower, and it went into operation on July 12—Charles Waldo, the Presque Isle Light's first keeper, noted in the log for that day: "This is a new light station and the light will be exhibited for the first time tonight. There ...
The Erie Land Light, also known as the Old Presque Isle Light, is a lighthouse on the shore of Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania. It is one of the three lighthouses in Erie, along with the Presque Isle Light and the North Pier Light. The lighthouse is situated on the bluffs overlooking the lake in Lighthouse Park east of downtown Erie.
The light, situated at the far eastern end of Presque Isle State Park, helps mariners as they traverse the narrow inlet between Lake Erie and Presque Isle Bay. [1] Originally constructed as a wooden tower in 1830, that light was swept away by a schooner in 1857. [2] The current structure was forged in France and assembled on site in Erie. It ...
The city is once again collaborating with the Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority for Lights Over Lake Erie. The event is funded in part by a $15,000 events grant from the Erie County Gaming ...
On the night of Oct. 10, people across Pennsylvania were surprised to see the lights dance across the sky. The geomagnetic storm is currently at G4 intensity out of a G1-5 scale. G4 storms could ...
Snug Harbor Light Conneaut Lake [1] N/A 1924 [1] Unknown Active Unknown 33 ft (10 m) [1] Turtle Rock Light: Philadelphia 1887 Unknown Active Unknown ...
Oct. 23—ASHTABULA TOWNSHIP — Volunteers were grateful for sunny skies and relatively warm, dry weather as they started the long, hard process of creating Ashtabula County's Lights on the Lake.
The Lighthouse on Turtle Rock is a lighthouse built in 1887 to aid traffic on the Schuylkill River near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The lighthouse was constructed by Frank Thurwanger at a cost of $2,663 on an area of land just west of Boathouse Row.