The Golden Age of American Lighthouses: A Nostalgic Look at U.S. Lights from 1850 to 1939

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Summary: Nice Entry Into Lighthouse History
Review: Having visited some this summer, asked at a lighthouse museum for book to enter lighthouse past, and this one was suggested.

What really helps are the nice large photos and verbage about what a keeper did and the phasing of them out by modern technology and resotration and preservation efforts for others.

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Summary: best lighthouse book ever written
Review: This is the best lighthouse book I have ever read. It's jammed packed with information you would never find in any other lighthouse book. Strange and unusal tales, like the man who built many of our lighthouses and missed becoming presient by a matter of hours, or the man who ran our lighthouse service for 32 years is also the same man who saved the Declration of Independence. This is one lighthouse book you will want to have