I was not familiar with the concept of pile mounted lighthouses before -
sounds like a tough lifestyle living literally out in the water!
Mark
On 9/21/2014 4:51 PM, John wrote:
That's cool.
NC has two of them - an original and a copy.
The original was preserved by a local tugboat operator, Emmett
Wiggins, who bought it surplus & used it as his home for many years. A
local maritime museum in Plymouth, NC wanted to buy it, but couldn't
meet his asking price, so they built a replica.
After Wiggins died another, competing, local historical society across
the river in Edenton, NC managed to buy it from his heirs for a
quarter of his asking price and had it moved to their waterfront.
The replica: 35.866297,-76.753943
The original: 36.056033,-76.610905
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