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Author : Gail Swanson
Release : 2014
Genre : Florida Keys (Fla.)
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sombrero Key Lighthouse by : Gail Swanson
Download or read book Sombrero Key Lighthouse written by Gail Swanson. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Albritton
Release : 2021-11-29
Genre : Photography
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Book Rating : 167/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Historic Lighthouses of the Florida Keys by : Laura Albritton
Download or read book Historic Lighthouses of the Florida Keys written by Laura Albritton. This book was released on 2021-11-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Florida Keys possess a staggering wealth of lighthouses--nine in all, from the remote iron light at Fowey Rocks to classic brick structures at Key West and Loggerhead Key. In the 1820s, the US government began constructing lighthouses to aid mariners navigating the dangerous Florida Reef. While some of the original lights were subsequently destroyed in dramatic circumstances, most that followed, including Carysfort Reef, Alligator Reef, Sombrero Key, Sand Key, and American Shoal, survived intense tropical weather and even major hurricanes. Among the lighthouse keepers were remarkable women who succeeded in a profession usually reserved for men.
Author : Love Dean
Release : 1998
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 659/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lighthouses of the Florida Keys by : Love Dean
Download or read book Lighthouses of the Florida Keys written by Love Dean. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated historical account of the Florida Keys lighthouses full of history and legend.
Author : John Hairr
Release : 1999
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 264/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Florida Lighthouses by : John Hairr
Download or read book Florida Lighthouses written by John Hairr. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sporting the second-longest coastline in the United States, Florida has over 8,000 miles of sparkling beaches and waterfront property. This valuable landscape and the region's position between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico made Florida key in the early expansion of American trade routes, but the state's several capes and dangerous reefs, rocks, and shoals made travel quite perilous to unwary mariners. When commerce and traffic began to grow between ports on the East Coast and along the Gulf of Mexico in the nineteenth century, it became necessary to construct aids to navigation along the state's long and treacherous coast. Lighthouses were the solution. Constructed in a variety of styles and sizes, Florida's lighthouses were erected on what, at the time, were some of the most desolate regions of the southeastern United States and included lonely offshore islands. Manned and inhabited by vigilant keepers and their families, these towers illuminated the dark seas and provided the beacon that guided lost travelers. Large brick structures watched over St. Augustine, Pensacola, and Ponce de Leon Inlet; iron skeletons towered over Crooked River and Hillsboro Inlet; and screwpile lighthouses stood as sentinels in the waters off the Florida Keys.
Author : Ray Jones
Release : 1998
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 834/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gulf Coast Lighthouses by : Ray Jones
Download or read book Gulf Coast Lighthouses written by Ray Jones. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful photographs, maps, and descriptions of the fabled reef lights forming a 3,000-mile semicircle from Key West, Florida, to Corpus Christi, Texas.
