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Debbie Dolphin’s last blog post..Bird Island Lighthouse Light-keeper retires

My accolades go out to those of you who have supported our Sambro Light House over the years - I am so proud of you for standing up to the plate - now it is time for our Government to step up to the plate and hit a 3-run home run for all of us.

Karla Patterson (nee Hamm)

Thank you for the Sambro Island Light update!

A new Sambro Island Light post will be published as soon as we know the date of the 250th birthday.

Hopefully, Jim Guptill of the Nova Scotia Lighthouse Preservation Society can answer your question. Jim can be contacted by visiting the NSLPS - Contact Page.

Debbie Dolphin’s last blog post..The Evolving Eye of Lighthouse Engineering

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Thank you for explaining the details!

Hopefully in the future, we can work together to post any news of the hard working preservation efforts of the Nova Scotia Lighthouse Preservation Society?

Thanks for your response. Not to belabour the point or get into sematics too much but — the Nova Scotia Lighthouse Preservation Society ascertained that the Sambro Island Lighthouse is the oldest operating lighthouse structure in North America — it’s certainly not the oldest lightstation on the continent — as you say — that honour goes to Little Brewster Island in Boston Harbour. We base this claim on the fact that the bulk of the structure that remains in service today on Sambro Island was built 1758-1760, whereas, the current Boston Light was built in 1783. To my knowledge there are no other physical lighthouse structures older than Sambro Island still in service in the Americas.

Unfortunately, some media sources are not terribly clear or accurate in their reporting of these matters. As you say, our prime goal should not be to proclaim who has the best, tallest or oldest, but trying to preserve and protect these crucial elements of our maritime history. Thanks for your time and interest.

Thank you for explaining your research.

Hopefully, there is no confusion about the phrase “oldest continuous operating Lighthouse” example since the post clearly uses this phrase as one possible illustration of the meaning in the news article with no individual claims intended or made (The post never stated anyone made a “continuous operating” claim).

The post was attempting to seek clarification of who made the following claim in the original news source: “The foghorn has been turned off at what is said to be North America’s oldest working lighthouse.” - Sambro foghorn goes quiet, published Nov 13, 2007.

Per Footnote (3), Boston Harbor Lighthouse is North America’s oldest working Lighthouse with 284 years versus the 247 or 248 years (1759 or 1760 for the present Tower) of the Sambro Island Lighthouse.

I am sorry but the confusing news source published the oldest working Sambro Island Lighthouse claim apparently without realizing or considering that Boston Harbor Lighthouse is the oldest Working Lighthouse in North America.

Perhaps, Lighthouse news stories in America or Canada or any nation can place their emphasis on reporting about the preservation efforts required to save all old historic Lighthouse Treasures and Symbols of Safety for the present and future generations?

Thank you for explaining the details of poor condition at the Light Station in the original news story!

Unfortunately, the preservation of the history and Architectural Radiance of many Lighthouses was not a priority until recently. Lighthouse Levitation was my point to highlight the expensive costs to restore these Active Lighthouse Gems.

Maybe, my hindsight is 20/20 but many solutions to save Lighthouses were used in the past as noted in my Nottawasaga Island Lighthouse Endangered by Politics? as a economical way to save and preserve our Lighthouse Treasures!

Footnote #3 was posted because the information seems to be published in several places and the original source of the bizarre statement is difficult to locate.

“Again, thank you for the coverage on the state of the Sambro Island Lighthouse.”
Your welcome.

At any time you would like to update the condition of Sambro Island Lighthouse and/or any restoration efforts, please let me know and hopefully, we can report on the positive progress of saving all the buildings and tower of your historic Lighthouse Treasure!

In Footnote #3, I cannot comment about the validity of the claim that Sambro is the oldest as my comments are based on the what the experts that have researched this in the past have told me. Again, thank you for the coverage on the state of the Sambro Island Lighthouse.