Timeline Part II
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Continued from this thread. 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. We left off with 1934, so the next post should be for a 1935 event.
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1936 - Holland Harbor ("Big Red") current light tower was added to the top of one of the gables, and the entire building was covered with steel plates. Dan
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1937 Experiments to test the use of remote control apparatus for fog signals by means of a modulated light beam were made, using the compressed-air fog signal at Point Chehalis Range Light Station, Washington, and the fog (bell) signal at Old Point Comfort Light Station, Virginia. (SECCOM AR 1937, p. 111).
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Re: Timeline Part II
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08/30/04 11:52 AM
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1938: The Stone family opens the Bass River Lighthouse in MA as the Lighthouse Inn. http://www.lighthouseinn.com/history.htm Please, whoever does 1939, don't do the CG/USLHS merger!
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Re: Timeline Part II
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08/30/04 12:26 PM
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1939 Coquille River The resulting decline in shipping led to the station's closure in 1939
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Re: Timeline Part II
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Why not, Greg? It is one of the most important years in the history of lighthouses.... However, also found that the Warwick Light was moved inland 50 feet after the Hurricane of '38 because of beach erosion and the fear of relocating over the cliff. Scroll down this page
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Re: Timeline Part II
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Blast, Joyce aced me on that one.... Well, in 1940, the head keeper at Michigan City died and the assistant keeper moved out of the old, original lighthouse building. (Now the Old Michigan City Lighthouse, our Hoosier club's adopted light). The building became a private residence for a while, and was also used by the CG Auxillary for a while before being left to the vandalls until 1965 when the Historical Society took possession and began restoration. Details To fix the link...
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Re: Timeline Part II
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08/30/04 07:10 PM
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Re: Timeline Part II
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Re: Timeline Part II
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Re: Timeline Part II
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Dave-It is DEFINITELY an important event! However, my goal for this game is to learn new facts, and we all know that fact. However, thanks for that GREAT link!
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Greg,
Just because you knew it, doesn't mean that we all did.
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Re: Timeline Part II
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08/31/04 12:01 AM
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OK, I guess not everyone knew that. Sorry! I should have worded it "most of us", but sometimes these things slip through. Should have just said nothing...oh well, these things happen, let's not make a big deal. It's settled now.
I don't want to turn this thread into a big arguement. This is the last post on the topic.
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1945 - Fairport Harbor Marine Museum is the first Great Lakes Lighthouse Museum in the state of Ohio, as well as the United States. Nice hill for wintertime sledding Dan
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1947 Bolivar The government sold the lighthouse as surplus property in 1947.The E W Boyt interests entered a private bid of $5,500 which was $500 higher than the only other bid
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Shucks, Dave. I was gonna pop in with this 1952 Beauty!
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1953 Elbow of Cross Ledge In October 1953, the light was struck by the ore freighter Steel Apprentice making it's way through dense fog and as a result 2/3's of the structure was destroyed, leaving only the caisson base and about 10-feet of the tower.
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1955 - The lightship Hankerchief (LV98 / WAL521) is decommissioned at an age of 40. It's last duty location was at Relief (MA). Sorry that I'm not leaving a link to the Web Page that spells this out, but I couldn't get the link to work. Kept giving me the error message that a parenthesis is not allowed in a HTML tag?? Dan Try this link to a picture - Dave (Looking for the link to fix...-G)
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Sorry, should have been two m's in the word "decommissioned".
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Hi George, The URL tag I was trying to use was the following: "http://www.nightbeacon.com/zlightships/LV98_%28Hankerchief%29_Lightship.htm" I couldn't add it in because I was getting error messages about not permitting parentheses in a URL tag? Thanks for the link though. Maybe you can tell me what was wrong with the URL tag??? Dan
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Mendota Light Station , Bete Gis, Michigan, that was built in 1895 was decommissioned in 1960. It is privately owned at present and used as a residence. Dan
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(Assuming I am George... ) Dan, I'm stumped. I tried to post it in the Play Room, to no avail. Yet I can open it in my browser. I don't see anything peculiar about the URL...just the %28 and %29. But I think that is how the computer converts spaces or characters to text for URLs. If anyone who is curious about Dan's page wants to see it, just copy-and-paste into your browser. It's a great page, thanks! And now for my submission today... 1961 : Carl Haffenreffer bought the Sakonnet lighthouse for $1,300 at auction in 1961, saying, "I was afraid someone was going to paint it pink or haul it away for scrap," http://www.lighthouse.cc/sakonnet/history.html
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1962 Morris Island Lighthouse This light served until 1962 when the new Charleston Lighthouse on Sullivan's Island was put into service.
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Hey George, er Greg .... sorry about that, Don't have the foggiest what's going on with the URL tag. Maybe one of the other HTML gurus can figure it out!? Dan
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Mombo posted another URL from the same site, same type of page. I took the URL to the Play Room, and got the same result. I'm stumped on this one. Other URLs work fine.
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You can't use figures that are not basic text, ones that are considered special operators if I remember correctly. The % sign is a special operator.
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1965 COLD SPRING HARBOR Cold Spring Harbor Lighthouse built in 1890 was moved to the lawn of a private residence in 1965
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1966: The National Park Service acquired the Pt. Reyes lighthouse station from the Coast Guard, which continued to operate the beacon and fog horn. http://www.ptreyeslight.com/lthouse.html Just a reminder...as we are getting closer to modern times, many events are going to be for automation, deactivation, and other similar events. Just remember that there cannot be two of the same type of event in a row.
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1967 - A lighthouse is built on Santa Cruz, California Point by parents to serve as a memorial to their son who drowned in a surfing accident. Dan
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The Titanic Memorial Lighthouse in New York City was donated to the Souith Street SeaportMuseum in 1968 and eight years later, in 1976, it was erected at it's curent location on the corner of South & Fulton Streets. Dan
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1970 Punta Gorda There were once 3 wonderful keeper's dwellings, a fog signal building and other structures, but all that remains today are the lighthouse and oil house. The rest were burned down in 1970 to prevent their use by squatters.
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1971-The Maurice River Historical Society is founded with the goal of restoring the East Point Light. That same year, before negiotations with the state were complete, the lighthouse was set on fire. The lantern room, roof and most of the buildings interior were destroyed. http://www.njlhs.burlco.org/eastpoint.htm I changed my event because the other one was really lame. It helps to scroll!
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1973 - A 22 year-old Coastie, Lawrence "Terry" Cole becomes lighthouse keeper at Maine's Fort Point Light
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This thread is now closed. The game is continued at:
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