Ocracoke Lighthouse - Reviews from across the web
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short and stout - user review Can't go that close to it but somehow its a very friendly looking lighthouse it may have been my favourite of the three i saw (hater... tripadvisor.com
The Ocracoke Island Lighthouse, Ocracoke Island - National Park Service - Cape Hatteras National Seashore - Cape Hatteras, Bodie Island and Ocracoke Island Lighthouses The U.S. Lighthouse Service recognized that a lighthouse was needed at Ocracoke Inlet to assist mariners. In 1794, construction began on Shell Castle Island, a 25 acre, shell-covered island located between Ocracoke and Portsmouth Island to the south. This site was adjacent to the deepest inlet chann... nps.gov
Ocracoke Lighthouse - Ocracoke Island / Hyde County's Outer Banks The oldest lighthouse still in operation in North Carolina, and one of the oldest on the Eastern coast of the United States, it was built by Noah Porter for $1... ocracoke-nc.com
Ocracoke Lighthouse The present structure is the third. In 1798, a 54-foot wooden tower was built on the Ocracoke Inlet entrance where Edward Teach, otherwise known as Blackbeard the Pirate, lived at one time. The channel shifted, rendering the lighthouse ineffective. It was replaced by a light vessel in the inlet in 1... outerbanks.org
Ocracoke Lighthouse : The only was to get there is by ferry. A free ferry service is available between Cape Hatteras and Ocracoke Island and takes about 40 minutes. Other ferries travel between Ocracoke and the southern North Carolina mainland. These are longer rides and... rickslighthouses.com
Ocracoke Lighthouse Blackbeard came home to Ocracoke after hard days at sea, plundering merchant ships. Almost 100 years after his pirate reign, the first light was built on the island, in 1803. Fifteen years later it was destroyed by lightning, replaced in 1823 by the current tower. The original fourth-order lens was ... lighthousegetaway.com
Hyde County, NC - Attractions - Ocracoke Lighthouse At 75 feet tall, the Ocracoke lighthouse is the shortest in North Carolina, but it is the oldest continuously operating one in the state, and one of the oldest on the Eastern Seaboard. Its walls are brick, 12 feet thick at the bottom and two feet thick at the top. The exterior was originally whitewa... hydecounty.org
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