Digest>Mar/Apr 2016

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In April of 1970 the Bureau of Land Management ordered every structure made of wood at the Punta Gorda Lighthouse to be burned to the ground. This original photo in the archives of Lighthouse Digest shows one of the keeper’s homes totally engulfed in flames.
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Punta Gorda
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