Lighthouses are increasingly endangered by modernization and abandonment. Simple steel skeletons are replacing the picturesque, conical towers, squat screwpiles and Cape Cod styles so much a part of America's maritime history. This traveler's guide to more than 300 of the nation's most significant lighthouses and lightships includes an introductory look at the evolution of lighthouse technology and how these obsolete but beloved structures can be rescued.
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Comprehensive historical state-by-state guide to lighthouses,
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This review is from: Great American Lighthouses (Great American Places Series) (Paperback)
While there are other guides to American lighthouses, F. Ross Holland has presented the history behind most of the lighthouses he describes in a state-by-state guide. Perhaps more than half of the photos show the lighthouses in 'olden times' (with all photos in black & white.) (See his other book "Lighthouses" for beautiful color photos.)While this book doesn't contain driving instructions or location details, it is an important book on the subject. Recommended for anyone wanting to know the story behind the lighthouse.
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Holland's book is the best available for those who plan to visit American lighthouses. It is the most comprensive guide available, featuring directions to each lighthouse and a little blurb about each one. What it does not have is great pictures. Most are quite small and all are in black and white.
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Lighthouses have long had a strong appeal to Americans, an attraction that becomes more intense as time passes-fueled no doubt by the fact that our historic lights are being automated and in many cases replaced. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lens whose light, octagonal pyramidal tower, old light station, better daymark, lens whose focal plane, brick light tower, conical brick tower, iron skeleton tower, keeper lighted, old light tower, double keepers, keeper exhibited, lighthouse board, ventilator ball, fog signal building, fifth auditor, brick oil house, screwpile structure, caisson lighthouse, first light tower, seacoast light, steel skeleton tower, screwpile light, diaphone fog signal, lighthouse guided ships Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Coast Guard, Bureau of Lighthouses, National Park Service, Great Lakes, United States, Civil War, Chesapeake Bay, Cape Cod, Cape Hatteras, New York, Bicentennial Fund, Point Loma, Presque Isle, Boston Harbor, Key West, Lake Michigan, Long Island, Lake Superior, Rhode Island, Bodie Island, Hudson River, National Register, New Jersey, Sandy Hook, Apostle Islands New!
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Lighthouses have long had a strong appeal to Americans, an attraction that becomes more intense as time passes-fueled no doubt by the fact that our historic lights are being automated and in many cases replaced. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lens whose light, octagonal pyramidal tower, old light station, better daymark, lens whose focal plane, brick light tower, conical brick tower, iron skeleton tower, keeper lighted, old light tower, double keepers, keeper exhibited, lighthouse board, ventilator ball, fog signal building, fifth auditor, brick oil house, screwpile structure, caisson lighthouse, first light tower, seacoast light, steel skeleton tower, screwpile light, diaphone fog signal, lighthouse guided ships Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Coast Guard, Bureau of Lighthouses, National Park Service, Great Lakes, United States, Civil War, Chesapeake Bay, Cape Cod, Cape Hatteras, New York, Bicentennial Fund, Point Loma, Presque Isle, Boston Harbor, Key West, Lake Michigan, Long Island, Lake Superior, Rhode Island, Bodie Island, Hudson River, National Register, New Jersey, Sandy Hook, Apostle Islands New!
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- National Register of Historic Places by Rh Value Publishing in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Great Lakes by R. Allen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Lighthouses of the Pacific by Jim Gibbs on page 55
- The Lighthouses of the Chesapeake by Robert de De Gast on page 55
- Great Lakes by Rh Value Publishing on page 55
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- Lighthouses of the Mid-Atlantic Coast (Pictorial Discovery Guide) by Elinor Dewire in Back Matter
- Down The Jersey Shore by Russell Roberts in Back Matter
- Lighthouses of the South (Pictorial Discovery Guide) by Elinor De Wire in Back Matter
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