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2. Bodie Island Lighthouse - Wikipedia

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   Bodie Island Lighthouse: 1837 - The United States Congress appropriates funds to be used towards the construction of Bodie Island Lighthouse on the coast of North Carolina. 1847 – The contractor on the first project was Mr. Francis Gibbons, of Baltimore, who would later become a prominent lighthouse builder on the West Coast.

3. Currituck Beach Light - Wikipedia

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   CURRITUCK BEACH LIGHT: 1875: 1 December: Beacon was first lit. 1876: The Victorian "stick style" keeper's house was completed. 1920: An 1870s dwelling was moved from the Long Point Lighthouse Station to the site as a smaller keeper's residence.

4. Sletterhage Lighthouse - Wikipedia

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   Sletterhage Lighthouse is located in Denmark on the southern tip of the Djursland peninsula protruding into the Kattegat between Denmark and Sweden at the entrance to the Baltic Sea. The concrete lighthouse was built in 1894 to help guide ships to and from the Port of Aarhus, via a shipping lane that passes close to the lighthouse isthmus.

5. Heceta Head Light - Wikipedia

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   Heceta Head Light is a lighthouse on the Oregon Coast 13 miles (21 km) north of Florence, and 13 miles (21 km) south of Yachats in the United States. It is located at Heceta Head Lighthouse State Scenic Viewpoint, a state park, midway up a 205-foot-tall (62 m) headland.

6. Back River Light - Wikipedia

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   This lighthouse constructed in 1829 by Winslow Lewis of Boston, was a 30-foot (9.1 m) conical masonry tower similar to others further up the bay. A hint of its coming travails was given by the need for a 144-foot (44 m) long footbridge to carry the keeper over the marshy land between the tower and his house.

7. Ida Lewis - Wikipedia

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   Ida Lewis was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the second oldest of four children of Captain Hosea Lewis of the Revenue-Marine.Her father was transferred to the Lighthouse Service and appointed keeper of Lime Rock Light on the small near-island Lime Rock in Newport in 1854, taking his family to live on the rock in 1857. [4]