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Alexander Mitchell designed the first screw-pile lighthouse; his lighthouse was built on piles that were screwed into the sandy or muddy seabed. Construction of his design began in 1838 at the mouth of the Thames and was known as the Maplin Sands lighthouse, which was first lit in 1841. [24]
Boston Light is a lighthouse located on Little Brewster Island in outer Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. [3] [4] The first lighthouse to be built on the site dates back to 1716, and was the first lighthouse to be built in what is now the United States. The current lighthouse dates from 1783.
On November 3, 1718, Worthylake, his wife Ann, daughter Ruth, servant George Cutler, slave Shadwell, and friend John Edge were returning to the lighthouse after going into Boston to attend a sermon. Upon arrival near the island in a sloop, they alighted in a canoe to transport them to the station.
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The history and legends of Washington, D.C., including the legends surrounding the White House. One of those legends involves the attempts by Mary Todd Lincoln – wife of President Abraham Lincoln – to contact her deceased son William Wallace Lincoln, who had died of typhoid fever in 1862.
Construction of the lighthouse began in April 1879. The first light used was a kerosene lamp. As 1879 drew to a close, the lens and glass for the lantern had not arrived, so the first lighthouse keeper, J.S. Maggs, a Seattle dentist, hung a canvas over the south window openings to break the wind and keep the kerosene lamp from blowing out. [5] [7]
The first keeper, Peter Shook, and his family took up residence in 1848. Within their first year of keeping the light, Peter Shook drowned during a supply trip, making him the first Michigan lighthouse keeper to die in service. [4] Consequently, his widow, Catherine Shook, was appointed as Michigan's first female lighthouse keeper.
The first lighthouse, a two-story wooden structure that also served as the keeper's house, was constructed in 1828. It was demolished, and replaced by the current cast-iron tower, in 1939. Originally located on an artificial island 1/4 miles (~ 400 meters) from shore, the lighthouse is now surrounded by a beach formed, since 1939, by sand ...