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North Carolina Lighthouses
The Stories Behind the Beacons from Cape Fear to Currituck Beach
- 256 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
North Carolina Lighthouses
The Stories Behind the Beacons from Cape Fear to Currituck Beach
About this book
Of the over four dozen lighthouses that once marked the jagged shoreline of North Carolina, only nine still stand, watching over 300 miles of coast. These beacons are cherished monuments of North Carolina history. In addition to warning ships to safer waters, they now draw thousands of visitors each year. With this book, cofounders of the Outer Banks Lighthouse Society Cheryl Shelton-Roberts and Bruce Roberts provide a well-researched, human-centered, and beautifully illustrated history of these towering structures. The authors offer stories—including the misadventures of Civil War spies and the threat of looming German U-boats off the North Carolina coast—that provide important context and meaning to the history of North Carolina's lighthouses. From Cape Fear to Currituck Beach, every still-standing lighthouse is lovingly described alongside their architects, builders, and keepers and the sailors who depended on the lighthouses to keep them from harm.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Ray Jones
- Introduction
- 1. Lighting North Carolina’s Coastline
- 2. The Second Bald Head Island Lighthouse and Other Cape Fear Lights
- 3. Ocracoke Island Lighthouse and Its Neighbors
- 4. Fresnel Lenses Refocus Tower Lights
- 5. The Second Cape Lookout Lighthouse
- 6. The Third Bodie Island Lighthouse
- 7. North Carolina Lighthouses, 1861–1865
- 8. The Second Cape Hatteras Lighthouse: The Move of the Century
- 9. Light Vessels and a New Type of Offshore Tower: Working Off the Grid
- 10. Currituck Beach Light Station: Lighting the Way to Living History
- 11. Facelifts in Old Age: Restoration Efforts and Changing Roles for North Carolina’s Lights
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: North Carolina Lights Timeline
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors
- Back Cover