Now that we have completed the forward in time version of Timeline, we will continue the game in reverse from the original event (which will be the "pivot point" for all future Timeline games), which was the lighting of the Sea Girt Lighthouse in 1896. Although Part III has not reached 50 posts, I am starting a new thread to make it easier to go between the two games.

Here's Part III: http://www.lighthousekeepers.com/forums/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=37;t=000229

The Rules:

We're working with the years of important events in individual lighthouses' histories. One person will list a year, a lighthouse, and an event that took place in that year at that light. The next person has to find another light with a DIFFERENT event that happened the next year.

Once we run out of events going forward in time, we'll go back to my original event and go backwards. And so on and so forth, bouncing between 1716 and 2004/5.

The twists and rules:

-Why is "different" in caps? When you post an event, it cannot be the same thing as happened in the previous event. Example: My event is a lighthouse getting a new lens. The next person cannot make their event have to do with getting a lens in a light. This might get a bit confusing...go with your gut feeling.

-Your event MUST be in the next year in the direction of play. If the previous post was 1876, you must post an 1875 (for backwards in time) or 1877 (for forwards in time).

-All lights must be in the US.

-You must provide a link to a webpage with the fact you are presenting on it.

-One post per person per day. However, if you posted in Part III today, you may post again in Part IV, as a "completion bonus".


Here's my event:

1895: Round Island, MI Lightstation established.

http://www.michiganlights.com/roundislandlh.htm

The next event should be for 1894.

Have fun!

The third tower to be called Cape Charles, which was established in 1828, was completed in 1894.
Chesapeake Bay Lights

Judy

1893 The United States Light-house Service publishes guidelines for uniforms for those in the service.

"Those better be \'regulation\' shorts you\'re wearing, keeper!"

1892 - Abbie Burgess Grant of Maine\'s Matinicus Rock Lighthouse died.

1891 The light in Point Loma is extinquished and the keeper moves to the "New" Point Loma light closer to the water level...

Read All About It

1890, Abbie Burgess Grant retires from White Head Light, Maine due to illness.
Abby Burgess


Judy

1889 - Point Sur, California lighthouse is established and lit for the first time.

Dan

A site was selected in 1888 for the construction of a new lighthouse at Heceta Head, Oregon.

Dan

1887 - Ponce Inlet, Florida Lighthouse is completed and lit for the first time.

Dan

1886 - New York\'s Statue of Liberty became the first lighthouse to use electricity.

1885 Mobile Middle Bay Lighthouse is screwed in and turned on!

(It's a screwpile; get it?)

Hope it survived Ivan the Terrible!

BELLS ROCK Lighthouse , York River, West Point, Virginia.

In 1884 a schooner hit the lighthouse and several support columns were broken.

Joyce

PONCE DE LEON

The Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse began as the Mosquito Inlet Lighthouse with the purchase of ten acres of land on March 21,1883

1882 - The third lighthouse at Cape San Blas Florida was destroyed by the encroaching sea.

1881 - Tillamook, Oregon Lighthouse is completed and put into service.

... and "Alcatraz" is known as the rock!

Dan

North Pier Light , Presque Isle, Erie, Pennsylvania


The light was moved to the end of a pier at the tip of the peninsula in 1880.

Joyce

Janes Island Lighthouse, Maryland was destroyed by moving ice on January 20, 1879.

Hate it when that happens!!

Dan

In 1878 a light is placed upon a reef at Fowery Rocks, Florida to prevent further shipwrecks. The rocks were named after the H.M.S Fowery that sunk at that location.

Dan

Liston Rear Range (was Penn Range Rear Light 1877-1905) relocated in 1877

Joyce

The present Fourth Order fresnel lens that is in the Nobska, Massachusetts lighthouse was installed and first lit in 1876.

Dan

Currituck Lighthouse was built in 1875

Joyce

1874: Herford Inlet Lighthou$e lit.

http://www.njlhs.burlco.org/hereford.htm

DOG ISLAND Lighthouse

A hurricane in 1873 destroyed both the tower and the dwelling.

Joyce

Nov 15, 1872 Pigeon Point CA Lighthouse first lit.

Yaquina Bay, Oregon Lighthouse is built in 1871 and is only used for three years thereafter.

Dan

Cape Blanco Lighthouse, Oregon

On the eve of December 20, 1870, the fresnel lens was lit for the first time.

Joyce

1869 - A new range light system was installed at Copper Harbor, MI.

Sand Point Lighthouse in Escanaba, Michigan is first lit in 1868 and Mary Terry, one of the first women lighthouse keepers on the Great Lakes, is appointed keeper.

Dan

Shell Keys Light, destroyed by a hurricane in 1867. The keeper died in the storm.

Joyce

Cape Arago, Oregon Lighthouse is built in 1866 and illuminated for the first time on November 1, 1866.

Dan

In July of 1865 the steam sidewheeler Brother Jonathan struck the St. George Reef and went down with only 19 of 244 on board surviving. This incident prompted the Lighthouse Board to request funding for the St. George Reef, California Lighthouse .

Dan

In August of 1864 the brick light tower became the target for Union artillery during the siege of Fort Morgan. When the fort surrendered on August 23, 1864, the Mobile Point, Alabama lighthouse had suffered irreparable damage.

Dan


(Fixed the link - G)

Thanks Greg.

Dan