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In 1927 the name of Mosquito Inlet was changed to Ponce de Leon Inlet. The lighthouse was transferred from the abolished Lighthouse Service to the United States Coast Guard in 1939, which would oversee it for the next three decades. In 1970, the Coast Guard abandoned the old light station and established a new beacon at New Smyrna Beach. The ...
The Ponce de Leon Inlet is a natural opening in the barrier islands in central Florida that connects the north end of the Mosquito Lagoon and the south end of the Halifax River to the Atlantic Ocean. The inlet originally was named Mosquito Inlet. In 1926 the Florida Legislature changed the name from Mosquito Inlet to Ponce de Leon Inlet.
Lions Lighthouse for Sight: Long Beach 2000 [2] Unknown Unknown Unknown ... San Diego 1891 1973 Active VLB-44: 88 ft (27 m) Point Montara Light ...
SDHL # [1] Landmark name [2] Image Address [2] Designation Date [2] Description [3]; 16: Whaling Station Site: Ballast Point Peninsula 11/6/1970 Shore station where whale blubber was boiled down for the oil in the 1850s and 1860s, halfway out on the inner beach of Ballast Point
The Old Point Loma Lighthouse is the highest point in the park and has been a San Diego icon since 1855. The lighthouse was closed in 1891, and the New Point Loma Lighthouse opened at a lower elevation, as fog and low clouds often obscured the light at its location 129 meters (422 feet) above sea level.
The 5-year-old male panda, Yun Chuan, is the grandson of Bai Yun and Gao Gao, two giant pandas that lived at the San Diego Zoo for decades. And his mother is Zhen Zhen, who was born at the zoo in ...
Live web cameras around the Myrtle Beach area allow people to watch the beach as Hurricane Ian approaches S.C.
He moved to San Diego in 1848 and worked as a blacksmith and saloon-keeper. [14] He and Maria Arcadia Alipas Machado, [15] the daughter of a long-established San Diego family, were married by a priest in 1852 at the Casa de Estudillo in Old Town. They had four children: Henry Clay Israel, Joseph Perry Israel; Robert Lincoln Israel, and a second ...