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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 ...
The Ocean County Sheriff’s Office’s Drone Command Center, stationed right on Vision Beach in Seaside Heights, has three massive TV screens so deputies can track airplane traffic overhead ...
Live web cameras around the Myrtle Beach area allow people to watch the beach as Hurricane Ian approaches S.C.
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 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 ...
Mosquito Inlet Lighthouse The Mosquito Inlet Lighthouse project started in 1883, and Babcock was the supervising engineer. [ 109 ] [ 106 ] On June 2, 1884, Babcock and his associates were aboard the government schooner Pharos to deliver construction supplies when they became anxious to return to land because a sudden storm created hazardous ...