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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2023 Apr 4, 08:06 -0700
And like decorative sextants, there are decorative lighthouses, too! The original on this crazy rocky pinnacle off Andros Island was apparently destroyed by German shelling in 1943. It was rebuilt about 25 years ago by a wealthy family as a tribute and set up as a fully automated light. Why rebuild it? Because it's a phenomenal tourist attraction, apparently quite popular.
Mystic Seaport Museum has a decorative lighthouse, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystic_Seaport_Light. It was built in the 1960s at the insistence of one of the museum's trustees. It has no navigational function.
Conanicut Island, where I live now, has a number of lighthouses, though they are in various stage of dysfunction or re-use except for Beavertail, which remains as an important navigation aid. Beavertail Lighthouse also has a cute little "aquarium" and a nice small museum --which even includes a couple of sextants and some navigation tables!
Frank Reed
