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The light tower is modeled after a steel oil drilling platform, known as a "Texas Tower", on top of four steel legs that was engineered to be used as a lighthouse housing several Coast Guard members. Each of the four 42" (1 m) legs are buried 296' deep into the soil below and were filled with cement.
A number of oil companies bought federal leases offshore North Carolina, but in 1990 the U.S. Secretary of Commerce denied Mobil Oil permission to drill after Congress passed the federal North Carolina Outer Banks Protection Act, prohibiting leasing and drilling on federal seabed offshore from North Carolina. Mobil and Marathon Oil sued the ...
Battery Park Hotel front view. The Battery Park Hotel is the name given to two hotels in Asheville, North Carolina. The one standing today is 14 stories tall and was built in 1924 by Edwin W. Grove, during a time of increased tourism in the North Carolina mountains. It replaced a Queen Anne style hotel [2] which stood 125 feet
The OCS P-0130 well drilled offshore Oregon by Union Oil in 1966 was described as having "potential for commercial gas production", [17] but none of the wells were completed as producers, and the federal leases expired in 1969. [18] [19] Farther north, in Canadian waters, Shell Canada drilled 14 wells offshore from Vancouver Island from 1967 ...
The hotel was built from 1905 to 1908 by a pair of brothers-in-law who had been taking tourists on hunting and fishing expeditions into the nearby mountains. By the 1980s, the inn’s 100 rooms ...
The Grove Park Inn is a historic resort hotel on the western-facing slope of Sunset Mountain within the Blue Ridge Mountains, in Asheville, North Carolina. The hotel has been visited by various Presidents of the United States. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the hotel was built in the Arts and Crafts style. The inn's 140 ...