Digest>May/Jun 2015

Photo Caption:

Apparently as early as 1918, as depicted in this photo, the government thought that for navigational purposes that the beacon should be much higher than the lighthouse when they erected this crude wooden tower next to the lighthouse. (Lighthouse Digest archives.)
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Story:

Buck Island Light – No Longer Guiding the Virgins
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