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January
2006 features
books and links about
Lighthouses |
American
Lighthouse Foundation
"To encourage the historic preservation and restoration of lighthouse, lightship and lifesaving station artifacts and documents throughout America, while endeavoring to foster and support local lighthouse initiatives and organizations through public information and advisory services; and to improve public awareness and appreciation of and access to all of America's lighthouses."
The Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association
"A non-profit organization, was incorporated in 1983. Its purpose is to facilitate the accumulation and exchange of information about the histories of the lighthouses and their keepers so that life at these stations may be accurately interpreted, their histories preserved, and a new generation of preservationists developed."
Legendary
Lighthouses
A companion to the PBS programs. Explores the history, legends, lore and workings of lighthouses along American shorelines.
Lighthouse
Heritage
An index to Maritime Heritage Program Lighthouse sites
from the National Park Service. Features news and information
about historic lighthouses.
Lighthouses: A Photographic Journey|
"An independent project which seeks to meld the work of photographer and lighthouse enthusiast Donald W. Carter with a comprehensive guide to the lighthouses of Michigan, The Great Lakes, America, and the world."
From the Internet Public Library.
Treasures of the Sunken
City
The companion Web site for the NOVA program, originally broadcast on November 18, 1997. This program chronicles the underwater discovery of the fabled Pharos lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, just offshore from the modern city of Alexandria in Egypt.
United States Lighthouse 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."
Wisconsin
Lighthouses
From LighthouseFriends.com. Information on
lighthouses along Wisconsin's shores.
Wisconsin Lighthouses
From Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill's Lighthouse Directory. Wisconsin has a surprisingly large number of lighthouses: this list shows about 50, at least 33 of them active. The list includes several privately built lighthouses of Lake Winnebago as well as several pierhead lights that might not qualify as lighthouses under strict definitions.
Wisconsin Lighthouses and Lighthouse Tours
From Wisconsin Attractions. For more than 100 years, Wisconsin lighthouses have guided ships through our Great Lakes and inland waters. More than 30 of these historic structures are still standing and many are still serving their original purpose. Some are open to the public and several offer tours.
World Lighthouse Society
"Our challenge at national and international level is to actively encourage and promote the protection and preservation of historically significant aids to navigation, primarily lighthouses and light vessels."
The World's Lighthouses, Lightships & Lifesaving Stations
From The WWW Virtual Library. An searchable index
to lighthouses all over the world.
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