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	Hannaford Lightouses on Parade
		First iron lighthouse in the United States was built in a position directly exposed to the sweep of the ocean was completed at Minot's Ledge, MA.
		Because Boston Light is the oldest station in the United States, Congress has declared that Boston Light always be a staffed station where the keepers must still turn the light on at night and turn it off at daybreak.
		The Lighthouse Inspector would also travel on the Lighthouse Tenders to visit lighthouses and make sure the keeper and his or her family was taking good care of the lighthouse.
	www.thebigparade.com /lighthouses/?action=quickfacts (1740 words)

	Lighthouse Service History
		Twelve colonial lighthouses remained in the hands of the individual states throughout the period of confederation with additional lighthouses being erected.
		The country was organized into 12 lighthouse districts, each having an inspector (a naval officer) who was charged with building the lighthouses and seeing that they remained in good condition and that the lens was in operation.
		Bureau of Lighthouses or the U.S. Lighthouse Service (1910-1939)
	www.michiganlights.com /lighthouseservice.htm (2732 words)

	United States Lighthouse Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United States Lighthouse Service, also known as the Bureau of Lighthouses, was the agency of the US Federal Government that was responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of all lighthouses in the United States.
		In 1935, Putnam was followed in the Commissioner's position by a career Lighthouse Service employee, H. King, a former district superintendent.
		In 1939, the Service merged with the US Coast Guard, which has since taken over the maintenance and operation of all U. lighthouses and Lightships.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Lighthouse_Service (721 words)

	Letter to Citizen's Stamp Advisory Committee
		Lighthouse Depots were built all over the United States.The primary Lighthouse Depot was located on Staten Island, at a site that is now in the process (as approved by Congress) of becoming The National Lighthouse Museum.
		Under the Presidential Reorganization Act of 1939, the United States Lighthouse Service was merged into the United States Coast Guard, thus ending one of the oldest segments of our government.Keepers were given the option to join the Coast Guard or Rumanian as civilian keepers, which more than half chose to do.
		Realizing the importance that lighthouses are to tourism,many states have gone all out with campaigns to promote their lighthouses by using a lighthouse in television, radio and print advertising.
	www.lhdigest.com /alf/stampletter.cfm (977 words)

	Lighthouses at Lighthouse Depot ... Frequently Asked Questions
		This lighthouse was destroyed during the Revolutionary War and was rebuilt in 1783 and still stands today.
		1831 - First lighthouse in the United States to operate using natural gas was the lighthouse at Barcelona (Portland Harbor), NY on the south shore of Lake Erie.
		1926 - The Lighthouse Airways Division was established by U.S. Lighthouse Service; its work covering the examination of airways and landing fields and the erection of aids to air navigation.
	www.lighthousedepot.com /lighthousefacts.cfm (1794 words)

	The United States Lighthouse Society \| About the Society
		The United States Lighthouse Society is a non-profit historical and educational organization incorporated to educate, inform, and entertain those who are interested in America's lighthouses, past and present.
		The United States Lighthouse Society has been the proud recipient of numerous awards including the Governor's Historic Preservation Award, the U.S. Department of the Treasury Award for Outstanding Public Service and Historic Preservation, the Senate Rules Committee Commendation, and the American Lighthouse Coordinating Committee's prestigious Founders Award.
		As a benefit for subscribing to the award winning Keeper's Log Magazine, you receive a membership in the prestigious United States Lighthouse Society, an organization that for the past quarter century has been in the forefront of lighthouse preservation and education, donating nearly $750,000 to restoration projects over the past ten years alone.
	www.uslhs.org (357 words)

	Outer Banks Lighthouse Society Articles
		The American Lighthouse Coordinating Committee, charged with the task of setting up the nation's first national lighthouse museum, is made up of representatives from every major lighthouse society in the United States.
		Moving the lighthouse half a mile inland from its current location just 120 feet from the Atlantic shore is, to be sure, a monumental task and one that carries with it some risk that the lighthouse will not survive the effort.
		Over 17 lighthouses have been moved to prevent their loss, many others were lost because the technology needed for their preservation was not available at the time.
	www.outer-banks.com /lighthouse-society/announce5.cfm (2263 words)

	Antiques & Collectibles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Lighthouse Service used three oil lanterns in various styles, marked No. 1, No. 2, and simply U.S.L.H.S. Lantern is entirely complete and intact, in very good condition with remains of early red paint and a light surface rust.
		This scarce original china dinnerware pieces from the United States Lighthouse Service was manufactured of heavy white institutional type china, in the early years of the Twentieth Century for use in ships’ wardrooms and at the offshore light stations.
		In the center of the rim is the United States Revenue Cutter emblem in rust with crossed anchors behind.
	www.lighthouseantiques.net /antiques/antiques.html (10491 words)

	Lighthouse - This Week In Cape May - Mid Atlantic Center for the Arts, Cape May, NJ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		MAC has supervised the restoration of the lighthouse windows and doors, the addition of safety improvements, the restoration of the oil house which is at the entrance to the lighthouse grounds, the restoration of the lantern roof and windows, the interior walls and staircase, and the archaeological investigation that located the original privies and walkways.
		The lighthouse has also been re-painted in its original color scheme, in which the tower is a light beige and the lantern is red.
		The state monitors the historical authenticity of the restoration, and also makes available to lighthouse visitors the parking and restroom facilities of the adjacent state park.
	www.capemaymac.org /Lighthouse/this-week-in-cape-may-lighthouse.htm (1769 words)

	A Brief History of New Dungeness Lighthouse
		New Dungeness Lighthouse was originally one-sixth of a mile from the tip of the spit.
		The New Dungeness Chapter of the United States Lighthouse Society was formed on September 3, 1994 and obtained, with the aid of the USLHS, a five-year renewable lease with the Coast Guard.
		While out at the lighthouse for their week, the keepers have duties, including cleaning, repairing and maintaining the buildings and keeping the lawns in good condition.
	www.dungeness.com /lighthouse/index.htm (809 words)

	Chronology of Aids to Navigation
		The Cape Henry Lighthouse was the first one built by the United States, and Congress in its first appropriations for lighthouse purposes on 26 March 1790 included this project, one that the State of Virginia had earlier undertaken.
		A naval officer was detailed to each lighthouse district, a revenue cutter or a hired vessel was placed at his disposal, and he was instructed to inspect all aids to navigation, report on their conditions, and recommend future courses of action.
		This lighthouse was the first one built in the United States in a position directly exposed to the sweep of the open sea.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/h_USLHSchron.html (12189 words)

	Children's Literature: Meet Authors & Illustrators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One of the first laws passed by the Congress of the United States in 1789 was for the establishment of what became the United States Lighthouse Service.
		Their lighthouse was built in 1768 and the Massachusetts Bay Colony paid John Thomas a rent of five shillings for his land, as well as two hundred pounds a year to act as keeper.
		Discuss how lighthouses were critical to their safety as day and night navigational aides, and as beacons warning of danger during storms.
	www.childrenslit.com /ft_lighthouse.html (1179 words)

	Lighthouse Traveling Library
		Lighthouse traveling libraries were used to supply light stations with reading material.
		Lighthouses were often time located in remote areas and as such had no access to city services such as libraries, opera houses, entertainment, etc. that most people enjoyed who lived in a town or city.
		Lighthouse traveling libraries were constructed for rugged use.
	www.michiganlights.com /lhlibrary.htm (732 words)

	Lighthouses@Lighthouse Digest ... Interesting Dates and Events in U.S. Lighthouse History
		The Secretary of the Treasury served as president of the Board and the law stated that the coast of the United States would be divided into 12 lighthouse districts and the President would assign an army or naval officer as an inspector for each district.
		1936 The Lighthouse Service's annual report claimed that the Lighthouse Service was perhaps the most extensively decentralized agency of the Federal Government with less than 1% of the total personnel of about 5000 persons being located at the seat of government.
		In effect, the United States Coast Guard takeover of the United States Lighthouse Service became the only military takeover of another branch of the government in United States history.
	www.lighthousedepot.com /Digest/StoryPage.cfm?StoryKey=228 (1257 words)

	U.S. Light House Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		With the establishment of the Lighthouse Service, the Federal government paid the cost of operations and by 1797 all lighthouses were under Federal control.
		Along with the Revenue Cutter Service, the Lighthouse Service was placed under the direction of the Navy by Executive Order as tensions with Spain increased and the clamor for war grew.
		ARMERIA was reassigned to the 13th Lighthouse District in 1907 and transferred again to the 16th Lighthouse District at Kechikan in 1911, becoming the first tender to be permanently assigned to Alaska.
	www.spanamwar.com /USLHS.htm (1677 words)

	United States Lighthouse History
		Prior to 1776 only ten additional lighthouses were built, due to considerable pressure from maritime merchants on local governments who usually bore the cost and construction of these early lights.
		Lighthouses in the U.S. did not meet with other countries standards and in 1838 inspections were made on the lighthouse system.
		The Bureau of Lighthouses was under the Commerce Department, headed by one man and Congress specifically restricted the assignment of military personnel.
	www.nightbeacon.com /lighthouseinformation/uslighthousehistory.htm (2101 words)

	American Lighthouse Foundation - Museum of Lighthouse History
		Tim Harrison, president of the nonprofit American Lighthouse Foundation, which owns and operates the museum, said that although he has seen a few similar platters like this over the years, they were all of a larger size and that this is the first time he has seen a smaller version.
		Jim Claflin, of Kenrick A. Claflin and Son Nautical Antiques, who specializes in Lighthouse Service and Coast Guard artifacts, states this style of dinnerware came into existence around 1900 to replace two earlier dinnerware patterns used by the keepers and families of the Lighthouse Service.
		Harrison went on to say, “When the Coast Guard took over the Lighthouse Service in 1939 orders came from Washington that everything bearing the name United States Lighthouse Service was to be destroyed and be replaced by items bearing the military emblem of the Coast Guard.
	www.lighthousefoundation.org /museum/mlh_uslhspltr_jun06.htm (567 words)

	About the Pointe Aux Barques Lighthouse and its Keepers
		The lighthouse tower and dwelling were rebuilt in 1857 when they tore the whole thing down and started over from scratch.
		Both the dwelling and tower had suffered severe cracks because they were made with the rock along the shoreline and the harsh weather was to much for them to handle.
		The lighthouse tower rebuilt in 1857 is still in existence today.
	www.pointeauxbarqueslighthouse.org /light/index.cfm (168 words)

	The United States Life-Saving Service
		The Service’s boats were either a 700 to 1,000 pound, self-bailing, self-righting surfboat pulled by six surfmen with twelve to eighteen foot oars, or a two to four ton lifeboat.
		A glance at the muster rolls of the Service shows that most surfmen listed their occupations before entering the Life-Saving Service as "fisherman" or "mariner." The number of men composing a crew was determined by the number of oars needed to pull the largest boat at the station.
		The museum is housed in the halls of historic Fort Schuyler, on the campus of the State University of New York (SUNY) Maritime College, Bronx, New York. The Maritime College may be reached by public transportation from Manhattan via "Pelham Bay Local" of the Lexington Avenue (East Side) I.R.T. Subway.
	www.longislandgenealogy.com /lifesaving.html (4528 words)

	Museum of Lighthouse History - American Lighthouse Foundation
		The Museum of Lighthouse History is dedicated to the preservation, educational interpretation and promotion of America’s rich lighthouse heritage and is learning fun for the entire family.
		The Museum’s extensive collection of lighthouse artifacts includes lenses, uniforms, historic images, flags, fog bells, a wide range of light station related items utilized by keepers to send out the light and human interest stories that are to sure to please and fascinate even the most casual visitor.
		The American Lighthouse Foundation has thousands of books, documents and photographs and other historical artifacts that are not on display because of a lack of space.
	www.lighthousefoundation.org /museum/mlh_landingpage.htm (506 words)

	Save Huntington Lighthouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1857, a lighthouse was built on the tip of Lloyd's Neck to assist ships in finding shelter in Lloyd Harbor from the wind and waves that often hinder navigation on the Long Island Sound.
		In 1912, a new lighthouse was built to serve Huntington Harbor.
		This Lighthouse was manned by members of the United States Lighthouse Service from 1912 until 1939, and by the United States Coast Guard since then.
	www.huntingtonlighthouse.org (233 words)

	Lighthouses in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This United States has hundreds of lighthouses as well as light towers, range lights, and pierhead lights.
		Most of the lighthouses in the United States have been built and maintained by the Coast Guard since 1939, its predecessor the United States Lighthouse Service from 1910-1939 and its predecessor the United States Lighthouse Board from 1852-1910.
		The Lake Havasu Lighthouse Club is in the process of building lighthouses on Lake Havasu which is part of the Colorado river.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lighthouses_in_the_United_States (1628 words)

	Lighthouse Gallery & Gifts
		A time when the glass prisms of the ten foot high Fresnel lens were kept polished and the lights turned on by hand each evening by people who passionately cared that the warning flashes sent their message through the night.
		At the Lighthouse Gallery and Gifts there are lifeboat binnacles and miniature lifeboat, foghorns, lanterns, books, lighthouse tours on video, lighthouse musical glass globes with flashing beacons and of course, the irresistible lighthouse miniatures.
		For those of you who are lighthouse collectors, we offer Harbour Lights (we are one of the South's largest dealers), Spencer Collin, Spoontiques, and Lefton lighted models.
	www.outer-banks.com /lighthouses (801 words)

	American Lighthouse Foundation
		A non profit group dedicated to saving lighthouses and lightships and their history for future generations.
		To foster lighthouse preservation and education to all ages.
		To save and display artifacts of the United States Lighthouse Service for the publics education.
	www.volunteersolutions.org /unitedwayofmidcoastmaine/org/8421522.html (248 words)

	The Maritime Exchange Museum - USLHS USLSS lighthouse antiques and collectables
		The goal is not only to balance out redundancy in our Museum but for others to be better able to display and interpret our important Maritime history to our respective visitors by having a more complete display and variety of artifacts.
		We encourage and promote the preservation of Lighthouses and Lighthouse history, and participate in efforts for fundraising and awareness for Lighthouse and Life Saving Service heritage.
		We travel worldwide to recover Lighthouse Lenses that are decommissioned and no longer needed as an operational Aids to Navigation.
	www.lighthouselens.com /index.htm (272 words)

	LIGHTHOUSES
		Lighthouses and Other Aids to Navigation in Alaskan History (pdf file)
		"U.S. Coast Guard 133-Foot Buoy Tenders": The illustrated HAER Report for the National Park Service on the White-class buoy tenders; the report contains a detailed history of this class of tender, including historic photographs as well as a complete set of plans.
		"U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Fir (WLM-212): A Lighthouse Buoy Tender for the Pacific Northwest." The illustrated National Park Service HAER Report on this historic Coast Guard tender.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/h_lhindex.html (199 words)

	Lighthouse Heritage: Index to Maritime Heritage Program Lighthouse Sites
		Lighthouse Heritage: Index to Maritime Heritage Program Lighthouse Sites
		National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000 (updated 9/19/06)
		Publicly accessible light stations by region (lighthouses to visit)
	www.cr.nps.gov /maritime/lt_index.htm (47 words)

	Pointe Aux Barques Lighthouse Society Gift Shoppe
		Men's Lighthouse Logo Watch Now you can proudly display the logo of the old United States Lighthouse Service every minute of every day.
		This fine quality watch is moisture resistant, has a lifetime guarantee with a quartz movement, fl stone crown, sweep second hand and a cushioned genuine leather band.
		Support the Lighthouse by purchasing Lighthouse Depot items from this site.
	www.pointeauxbarqueslighthouse.org /gifts/productDetails.cfm?MerchID=63 (95 words)

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