What a great post!
Did you know Plymouth has a relocated lighthouse? Smeaton’s Tower sat on the Eddystone Reef until replaced.
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What a great post!
Did you know Plymouth has a relocated lighthouse? Smeaton’s Tower sat on the Eddystone Reef until replaced.
This Lighthouse, Highland Light, also known as Cape Cod Light, about a half mile or so away, was moved, a couple dozen years ago. it was wrapped in steel cables, raised onto train tracks and moved hundreds of yards from it's cliffside residence, to make way for erosion. Walk out past it, and you can see part of the old foundation... part, as, the other part is no fallen, into the "GraveYard Of The Atlantic" along with many wrecks from the early 1700's on:
I grow up hearing the fog horn, many an afternoon and evening, alerting nearby sailors, of the danger of our shoals. Shame, so many sailors fell for the song of the naughty sirens, plying their trade.