Beam me up, Scotty before this Beacon Battle begins!
Two Preservation Organizations have started to feud over the ownership of a Fourth-order Fresnel lens. Both the Light-keepers of the Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse Historical Society and the Ohio Lorain Lighthouse Foundation are NOT seeing the Light!
Since 1984, the Fresnel lens has been mounted in the Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse [...]
(Photo credit: Minnesota
Historical Society)
Every year, the original Third-order Fresnel lens of Split Rock Lighthouse shines brightly over Lake Superior to remember the tragedy of SS Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10th and 11th. Twenty-nine men lost their lives when the “Mighty Fitz” sank during a fierce gale that created 30-foot high waves on November 10, [...]
From zero interest to $135,000 of interest, the historic Point No Point Lighthouse has become a popular Lighthouse in the online federal real estate Auction and with local concern about the increased boating traffic around the Lighthouse. Apparently, the Lighthouse is located nearby the fishing grounds of the bay!
Surprisingly, the previous “Point No [...]
Neither sea nor storms nor the latest GPS technology can keep a Lighthouse Dark forever! In a strange twist of fate, our navigational heroes received town approval to reactivate Dyce Head Lighthouse on October 22.
Dyce Head Lighthouse has been dark for 72 years after the Coast Guard erected a skeleton Light tower in [...]
Surprisingly(1), a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Preservation Society was the only nonprofit organization to express interest in the New York Long Island Sound Lighthouse. Historically Significant Structures was the only nonprofit group to submit a letter of interest before the July 29th deadline according to Newsday.com.
The real estate agent for the government has extended their application [...]