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The Yaquina Head Light, also known early in its existence as the Cape Foulweather Lighthouse (though Cape Foul Weather is 4 miles to the north) is a lighthouse on the Oregon Coast of the United States, established in 1873. It is located in Lincoln County, near Newport at Yaquina Head. The tower stands 93 feet (28 m) tall, and is the tallest ...
The damaged keeper's dwelling was later torn down. After a private developer purchased Goat Island in the 1960s, the land between the northern end of Goat Island and the light was filled in to build a hotel. In 2000, the Coast Guard leased the light to the American Lighthouse Foundation; it is managed by the Friends of Newport Harbor Lighthouse.
Nayatt Point Light is a historic lighthouse in Barrington, Rhode Island. The current light was built of brick in 1856 and contains an 1828 keeper's house. The lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
Dombrowski is among some of this nation's last resident lighthouse keepers. The 64-year-old and his wife have called Goat Island Lighthouse home for the better part of 30 years. Built in 1833, the ...
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The lighthouse keeper's house was swept away in the 1938 New England hurricane, and five people were washed out to sea and drowned: the keeper's wife, Mrs. George T. Gustavus (née Mable Gertrude Norwood; 1888–1938), the keeper's son, Edward J. Gustavus (1926–1938), the former keeper, Martin Thompson (1868–1938),
The Keeper's House Museum [88] U.S. Lighthouse Service 1789–1939: Benajah Wolcott House: NRHP 91000251: March 14, 1991 Marblehead Ohio Lucien Clemons Park [89] U.S. Life-Saving Service 1848–1915: Marblehead Life Saving Station [90] No N/A N/A Marblehead Ohio Marblehead Lighthouse State Park [91] U.S. Life-Saving Service 1848–1915
In the same year, the Friends received a $500,000 grant to restore the tower under the Transportation Act for the 21st Century. In 2000, after visiting the site, the Newport Collaborative Architects gave an estimate of $955,000 to restore the entire exterior and interior of the lighthouse. In October 2009, the Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse ...