Author: Stick, David,
Title: North Carolina Lighthouses.
Description: Raleigh, NC Dept of Cultural Resource, (1989). 7th ptg. VG PB. Because of NC's treacherous coastline, there has been a need to warn sailors of impending danger as they neared the Outer Banks. Outer Banks authority Stick provides a history of the construction & operation of lighthoues & vessels, the men who designed, built & manned them, of other men whose lives & vessels were saved because they were there. From re-Civil War light vessels riding at anchor in the most exposed locations, and the ungainly structures which replaced them, screwpile lighthouses, built out on the water. The advance from whale to coal oil, to electricity, from stakes & barrels as markers to modern automated devices, from stubby lightships to four-legged Texas Tower-like monsters built to stay.

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