
Saved from being taken out to sea, the lighthouse was moved to a new spot.
The Hatteras Lighthouse resides in Hatteras, North Carolina.
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Awesome! Cape Hatteras, always a deadly threat to mariners. After all those years, I still have nightmarish memories of some vicious pitching and rolling, and of battling it out to stay afloat, on route to N. York, or shortly after leaving the harbor. But still... those were the days, my friends. Thank you for reminding me, author
So glad I could bring forth a great memory. Those waters are full of wreckage from those less fortunate than yourself.
really great photo and great story
Thank you, lincemiope! Here's some more history:
It was built with 1,250,000 bricks baked in kilns along the James River in Virginia and brought in scows into Cape Creek where it was hauled by oxen one mile to the building site in Buxton. Its walls at the base are 14 feet of solid masonry and narrow to eight feet at the top. Weighing 6,250 tons, the lighthouse was built with no pilings under it - just a foundation built of heart pine. Towering 196 feet from the base to the top brick and then topped with an iron superstructure it become the tallest brick lighthouse on the American coast at 208 feet and at a cost of $155,000.00.
In the summer of 1999, as the ever-encroaching waters of the Atlantic Ocean threaten this stalwart structure, the Cape Hatteras Light was moved from its original location!
That was really nice. I'd like to see where exactly. I am from a seaside town, but we do not have big lights in the Mediterranean.
There are tides?
thanks
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