Cape Lookout Light
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chasecity
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Friday, March 28, 2008
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North Carolina, United States
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It is my goal to travel to lighthouses and life saving stations or Coast Guard stations around the country and world.
A laser engraved picture of the Cape Lookout Lighthouse on a small key chain.
The Cape Lookout Light has been guarding the shoals of Diamond City, known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic, since 1859. My great great grandfather was a member of the original building crew.
The Cape Lookout Light is the only lighthouse in the United States to bear the checkered daymark, intended not only for differentiation between similar light towers, but also to show direction. The black diamonds point in a north-south direction, while the white diamonds point east-west.
Diamond City was a former settlement on the eastern end of Shackleford Banks, in Carteret County, North Carolina. Due to a hurricane that struck in August of 1899, the approximately 500 residents of the settlement and island decided to move. The last of the residents had left by 1902, and even relocated houses to nearby places like Harkers Island, and Morehead City.
Shackelford Banks is the westernmost island of the Cape Lookout National Seashore, which extends for 56 miles from Beaufort Inlet to Ocracoke Inlet.
There are no bridges from the mainland to the site where Diamond City was located or any other part of the Cape Lookout National Seashore. Visitors must ride a private boat or a passenger ferry to reach the undeveloped Shackleford Banks site.
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