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Northern Lighthouse Board (1787–1991), Museum of Scottish Lighthouses (1991–) Heritage: category A listed building Fog signal: siren: discontinued: Deactivated: 1991 Lens: hyperradiant Fresnel lens Intensity: 980 candela Characteristic: W Fl 15s New Kinnaird Head Lighthouse : Constructed: 1991 Construction: fiberglass Height: 10 m (33 ft) Shape
This is a list of all lighthouses in the U.S. state of Washington as identified by the United States Coast Guard. [1] There are eighteen active lights in the state; three are standing but inactive, three were supplanted by automated towers, and two have been completely demolished. Two lights, one of them still active, serve as museums.
Kinnaird Head (Scottish Gaelic: An Ceann Àrd, "high headland") is a headland projecting into the North Sea, within the town of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, on the east coast of Scotland. The 16th-century Kinnaird Castle was converted in 1787 for use as the Kinnaird Head Lighthouse , the first lighthouse in Scotland to be lit by the ...
The project at the 156-year-old lighthouse museum will reconstruct the barn the lightkeeper's family used around the turn of the 20th century. Door County lighthouse restoration project wins ...
Calvert Marine Museum: Maryland: United States: 1970 Cana Island Light: Wisconsin: United States — Cape Arkona Lighthouse: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Germany — Cape Forchu Lighthouse: Nova Scotia: Canada — Cape Hatteras Lighthouse: North Carolina: United States — Cape Jaffa Lighthouse: South Australia: Australia: 1976 Cape North Lighthouse ...
This list of museums in Washington state encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public ...
Ponce Inlet Lighthouse and Museum U.S. Lighthouse Service 1789–1939: Ponce Inlet Light Station: Yes 72000355: August 5, 1998 St. Simon's Island Georgia World War II Home Front Museum [70] U.S. Coast Guard 1915–Present: US Coast Guard Station—St. Simons Island: NRHP 98000297: April 1, 1998 Also: Coast Guard/East Beach Park: Stuart Florida
The New Dungeness Light was first lit in 1857 and was the second lighthouse established in the Washington territory, [4] following the Cape Disappointment Light of 1856. Originally, the lighthouse was a 1½-story duplex with a 100-foot (30 m) tower rising from the roof. The tower was painted black on the top half and white on the lower section. [5]