State of the art, one of the seven wonders of the Ancient World, the great lighthouse of Alexandria, built around 280 B.C., towered some 450 feet above Egypt's greatest harbor. At that height, it was ...

A spectacular 19th century creation that’s been sitting in a Maryland office building for 40 years, will soon go on public display.

Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. For nearly 150 years, the Piedras Blancas ...

Contractors hired by the National Park Service are midway through the delicate two-week task of reassembling the original 1858 lens of the Fire Island Lighthouse. The 9,000-pound lens was removed from ...

The Point San Luis Lighthouse’s original 4 th order lens has been around since 1878. The light no longer shines but is now on display at the top of Point San Luis. Cleaning a 144-year-old lens takes ...

Just under a month after the restoration and preservation of the Tybee Lighthouse was completed, a prism has shattered. According to Tybee Island Historical Society Director Sarah Jones, part of the ...

When you clean a 147-year-old First Order Fresnel lighthouse lens, you don’t just grab the Windex and a rag and start to scrub. As seven volunteers learned in Cambria last month from expert lampist ...

A lens manufactured in France in 1902 is shining high atop Montauk Point Lighthouse once again. Earlier this month the U.S. Coast Guard relit the clamshell-shaped Fresnel lens, which guided mariners ...

DETROIT (AP) — A judge has ordered a Michigan man to surrender two antique lighthouse lenses worth at least $600,000, months after the collector lost a court battle with the federal government. Steve ...

The unique history of the Crooked River Lighthouse’s lens in Carrabelle, Florida. The Crooked River Lighthouse’s Executive Director, Steve Allen, shares with us the unique qualities of the Fresnel ...

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