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2. 1965 Type 2 Clad Washington Quarter Business Strike. Date of Sale: January 2005. Price: $12,650. Explore More: 10 of the Most Valuable Pennies. 3. 1942 Proof Washington Quarter. Date of Sale ...
Point No Point Light ; Location: Hansville, Washington: Coordinates: 1]: Tower; Constructed: 1879: Foundation: Masonry: Construction: Brick and stucco: Automated: 1977: Height: 30 feet (9.1 m): Shape: Square: Heritage: National Register of Historic Places listed place : Light; First lit: 1880: Focal height: 27 feet (8.2 m): Lens: Fifth order Fresnel lens (1880); Fourth order Fresnel lens (1898 ...
The original boiler and 12-inch steam whistle came from Oregon's Point Adams Light. A one-and-a-half-story keeper's house was built nearby. [6] A second keeper's quarters was constructed in 1907. [3] The point's first light arrived in 1887, when a lens lantern, shining persistent red, was attached to a 25-foot (7.6 m) post.
Point No Point Light, located in the Chesapeake Bay off the eponymous point several miles north of the mouth of the Potomac River, was constructed as part of a program to add lighted navigational aids in a thirty-mile stretch of the bay between Cove and Smith Points. [2] [3] [4]
In 2012, San Francisco started producing America the Beautiful quarters in the standard circulation finish of the P and D quarters for sale to collectors. [5] On April 2, 2019, the United States Mint announced that the West Point Mint would release 10,000,000 quarters (2,000,000 of each design released that year) with the "W" mint mark. [6]
The Coast Guard decommissioned the lighthouse in 1994. In 2003 Milwaukee County leased the lighthouse and keepers quarters to the North Point Lighthouse Friends and they began restoration of the tower and keepers quarters. A $984,000 grant was used to restore the light station and it re-opened to the public as a maritime museum in 2007. [5]
Point No Point (Lushootseed: hadᶻqs) is an outcropping of land on the northeast point of the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington, the United States. It was the location of the signing of the Point No Point Treaty and is the site of the Point No Point Light. The Lushootseed name of the point is hadᶻqs, which means "long point". [1]
The basic obverse design of the Seated Liberty coinage consisted of the figure of Liberty clad in a flowing dress and seated upon a rock. [3] In her left hand, she holds a Liberty pole surmounted by a Phrygian cap, [2] which had been a pre-eminent symbol of freedom during the movement of Neoclassicism (and traces its roots back to Ancient Greece and Rome).