Are we good? Yep. Okay. Hi everyone. I'm Emily and I'm Vince and this is the lighthouse lowdown
That was good dance moves over here, that's right, and that's why we don't have video
So I did manage to do a history buoy today. Nice. It's the one i've been promising. So i'm just delivering on all aspects
let's hear it so
We'll just go right in I guess i'm going to cover the us LHS membership tiers. What's the us LHS?
Go to our podcast episode number
Forty something? Oh, that's too much
Forty something
United States Lighthouse Society. Yeah. So please continue. Thank you
Basically, you can have a membership with the us LHS and the money goes towards
all kinds of lighthouse fun stuff like restorations and grants and like tours and stuff and um
And you get some stuff out of it too. You get access to a lot of us LHS like um,
Digital archives and there's a bunch of cool stuff, but i'll say it all nice
All lighthouse related all the
Yeah, for sure
So I just pulled up the memberships. There's two digital memberships and four physical memberships
Thank you
So when you start a membership it runs from 12 months from whenever you start so that's nice
Uh, all membership levels include the passport club enrollment, which
Vince and I talked about in the United States Lighthouse Society episode. Yep. It's a good one. It's a lot of fun stuff
It's stamped stuff and then you also get access to the keeper's log journal and the digital research catalog
Through all memberships all memberships. Yeah, so to sign up you can go to the membership tab on us
Lhs.org and you can also print out a membership form and mail it if that's easier for you
but uh, you can also fill out online and then
With a lot of the tiers you get stuff for signing up and they'll send it to you in the mail just like as normal
So yeah, so here are the tiers. We got two digital first one's passport level
It's 25 per year. You get a passport book to collect all your stamps in
And you also get access to various stamps like holiday stamps the yearly stamps and half off collectible stamps
Which I haven't done yet, but I made it this year
You also get the stamp flashes newsletter for any stamp related news
Which is basically like if they change the location of where you get the stamp for a lighthouse then they'll put it in a newsletter
Oh cool and update their website and this is a new thing
I'm not sure if you know about this, but you signed up more recently than I have so you might have noticed it
But uh, it's called the lighthouse enthusiast community
It's like a uh, I want to i'm not trying to insult it. It's like a chat social
Kind of social forum
So it's like a platform where you can plan your trips keep track of lighthouse visits and compare your totals photos and notes with other
Participants it's like the original facebook wall
Yeah, but it's like you keep track of all the lighthouses you've been to and then
So like you can say okay. I went to lighthouses in maryland and you click maryland click the lighthouse
And then you can add photos what dates you were there how many times you've been like stuff like that and uh, it's super cool. So
Unfortunately, they don't have all the lighthouses. You know, it's like it's only if they're basically if there's a stamp for it
Then there is probably on this list. Yeah
So like the Milliken State Park one in Detroit that one is not on uh, this list
This list so I don't get to count that I went to Milliken State Park
And now i'm like, oh bummer or like nomizaki in japan. Of course, it's not gonna be on there
But they do have some international lights like British Columbia the uk there's some you know, just like a couple select
Lighthouses when I input what lighthouses I had been to
I'm ranked
485th
That's pretty good
That's pretty good, but that's the people who participate in the community. So those are pretty hefty
I mean, I I filled out seven lighthouses on there. So that's pretty it's a pretty hefty amount of people on there
You may have to show me because like so when I signed up
I know we got more to say but when I signed up there was um
There's so much. Yeah, because I signed up for the we're gonna get to the keeper membership. So I I was able to encompass
All of those kind of hatching
memberships
There's a lot I was excited the most about my patch
Well, I didn't even know about this until I started doing this history building and I was like what the heck is this?
And it's pretty new it sounds like um, I don't know at least new to you new to me. I just found out about it
It's cool. It's under the resources tab on uslhs.org is for people who want to check it out
Um, and you have to like create a password and a login in order to get in but other than that there's uh,
Nothing else to do. Cool
Pretty neat and so our second digital membership is the ekeeper level
$35 per year. It has all the passport perks plus access to a bulletin newsletter and
10% off uslhs merch nice. It's pretty good. Their merch is pretty cool, too
I do have a look at that. I do like it. It's nice and simple. It's not like
Like, you know that shirt that I wore whenever we went to go visit. Um, cura tuc beach lighthouse. Yeah
I just really like lighthouses. Okay, like
it's the dumbest shirt ever and
It's easy for places that are so gung-ho on one subject like lighthouses to have merchandise
That's like really loud and like tacky and stuff, but these are like really nice
Like you actually want to wear it. It's just like the logo. It's very tasteful. You bought the hat as well
Should we have gotten a discount?
Yeah, but I we didn't enter it. No, and we're supporting lighthouses. I just didn't know about it
So just carried on the first physical level
Is the keeper level which vince here has represent is keeper level. It's 50 dollars per year
Uh, you got all the perks of the digital tiers plus you receive the keepers log journal and the lighthouse fund for kids quarterly publications
You also get a keeper embroidered patch. So every time you sign up for like one of the
physical
Um tears then you get a patch that matches like if you're looking at our youtube. It's what's on the screen
Super cool. Yeah, you also get a us lhs membership card upon request. So you have to ask for it when I signed up
I guess maybe two years ago. Yeah, I just got one in the mail. So it must have just made it to where now you have to ask for one
But it's just kind of cute. I keep it in my wallet just for funsies. Nice. That's awesome
Oh, I am a beacon level beacon level is seventy five dollars per year
It's all the digital tier perks plus a beacon level patch and a us lhs lapel pin
That is a really cool patch. It's the coolest pack. My favorite is the prison patch. So the prisons
150 dollars a month. Uh, so wow
We're going way up on cost no
Per year 150 for a year
So beacon level perks you also get a prism patch and a us lhs holiday ornament, which they custom design each year
So it's different every year. That's pretty cool
The last level is the illumination membership. It's 250 dollars for the year
It has all prism level perks a illumination patch. You receive a us lhs hat and shirt
I think on an annual basis. Yeah
Yeah, and then you also get a hundred dollars off any us lhs lighthouse tour. Super cool
Yeah, they've done a great job with this program. They have and it's so much fun
Like I I love to be a part of it. I have questions now a good time
Sure, and you may not remember but okay, so i'm a keeper level membership
Um, that's what I felt I could I could pay right now year to year and keep it going which I would like to do
Um rather than sign up and then you know, let it lapse
so um
You mentioned starting with the passport membership
The passport program which we've talked about before. Yeah, I have not received my passport
Is that in error or do I need to go request it from somewhere? Do you know that?
That's interesting. I'm trying to remember how I ended up with my passport because I don't think when I signed up the first time
That I got the passport in the mail. I must admit I didn't do all the work
I should have done in reading and yeah
I'm trying to remember I was a little bit overwhelmed when I signed up with all the things that I got
Yeah, which is great. I remember I got a letter. That was nice. I got my patch
um, but
I gotta look into my passport because i'd like it before we go on our
Trips definitely. Yeah. Well cool. So yeah, that's the membership tiers. Um, it's pretty rewarding especially for people like us who
Use their digital archives a lot. So
It makes sense for us to give back to the people that are oh, yeah, they do a fantastic job, right?
The uh, the big one the illumination membership is tempting to me because I think that's the coolest patch
Yeah, is it the colors? I like the color
I mean, I like the yellow and blue of both keeper and beacon as well. Yeah. Well and ekeeper
but
Illumination. Oh, that's like the bold text and the frontal lens. I don't know
It's cool for now. Gosh, I'm still doing that. I wonder why you're looking at me like that
I started second guessing myself and I was like, it's gotta be front now folks
But it's a cool patch and
I really wanted a hat and shirt. Yeah. Now do I need a new one every year? Of course, absolutely
I mean say you can't say no, it's so yeah for the moment. I haven't I haven't swung for the the price yet
Right, but I think it's it's great that it's out there. There's probably a lot of people who can do that
And I think that's wonderful. Yeah, one of these days
I mean every year so far i've been upping my membership. So and if they keep the same patch, I think
So far the patches have been different every year for me that i've been
Signed up and so if the prism patch is the same next year then
I'm just gonna do it
Just do it
Cool. So i'm gonna jump in our lighthouse vince. This one is recognizable to you
You and I went and saw this lighthouse by happenstance in the outer banks
Just the funsies. We had a little bit of free time and I was like, hey
There's this other lighthouse on the map. That's not like part of our plan. I'm so excited. I think I know what it is
Yeah, so we went and this was also when we went to like a cool distillery that was nearby. Yeah, so much fun nowadays
This lighthouse you can only see a replica of the original
The original is gonzo. Really? Yeah, so what we saw was the replica which was built in 2004
Four different lighthouses have carried the name roanoke marshes lighthouse at the
Croaton sound in north carolina. So we're gonna cover all four and that includes the replica
the what sound
croatin
Croatian? Nope
why?
What do you think i'm doing? I just haven't heard that word before
And I was there. You haven't heard a lot of words. You know what?
That is true
So before you go further this image is also on
Our youtube page it is our cover banner image so check us out on youtube. That's right photo you took. Yep
And uh, oh yeah, look at that pull up a nice photo of us in front of the lighthouse couple of handsome kids
At the end of a really long pier like it was so fun to just kind of stumble upon
I was on my knee scooter. So we had to kind of get over a hill. Yep. We parked in a weird spot
It was a whole adventure
We saw a sailboat who went and it went right by the lighthouse. Yeah, i've got good photos
I will put in the effort now as we continue to talk to show those
Yeah photos that I took that day kind of fun. Yeah, because I I wanted to see um
Find the ones of the sailboat and everything but I couldn't find them on your facebook. Yeah, they're uh,
They're not all posted. There were so many photos that I didn't post them all. This is a nice one of us
Yeah, we just missed the museum hours. So we didn't get to go inside
We wondered why everyone cleared out from the pier right as we showed up. It was like everyone trickled out
We're like what's going on and we missed it by like 30 minutes. It was cool though. I mean, yeah to see it basically on our own
We didn't go inside but and I don't want to step on your content but here in the windows
It's a nice photo
I think there's a bell I have a close-up photo. I think the bell's right there actually either way
The first lighthouse went into service in 1831. So it's pretty early
It was abandoned after only eight years for two reasons first one being that it needed extensive repairs
So they were just like we're done with it
And second is because a man was abandoned after only eight years for two reasons
First one being that it needed extensive repairs. So they were just like we're done with it
And second is because a man
Mr. Van Pelt claimed he owned the land after this eight years
And demanded a ridiculous sum of money for it. So instead of going through that whole debacle they were just like, you know what?
I can just end it. I bet that's a whole deal. Yeah, let me pull up a map the land
You'll have to get to the land because right now it's on a pier. Yeah, so we were on an island there
There was bridges that went from either side
For me the memory was fuzzy of like which direction we had to go to get there because we went to the outer banks and then
Turned around and went back to roanoke island, which is what this is on. It's that distillery
Let's see if I can find the name outer banks distilling if you're in that area. It's pretty cool
Outer banks distilling. I seem to remember we really liked our cocktails there
They were delicious like rum based old-fashioned in long island or something like that kill devil rum. Right? That's a good day
Okay, so
I pulled up roanoke island. You can see outer banks off to the side. There's the croatian sound and roanoke sound
Mantio, I think is how it's pronounced and tail maybe
I totally made that up and I don't know I I have it later, but I it won't let me scroll through my notes
So that's where the lighthouse is now, but the original one was built
At the very southern part of roanoke island against the croatian sound
Oh in when cheese or whatever that is
How do you think that's pronounced?
when when kz
What?
I love i'm we're gonna have so much fun. We find out
I know how to look it up one kz one kz
when kz
uh
when chesie
I'm like when cheese one one chesie one chesie when chesie
That's my uh my guess
When cheese when she's is what it says you're messing with me
All right when cheese when cheese now, what is this isn't this one of our lighthouses that we saw before is that with this marker
On google maps is uh, yes, so that's a body island. Oh cool. Yeah, so it's right up next to it
That whole when cheese area is very marshy and that's how we got roanoke marshes because there's also a roanoke river lighthouse
So not to be confused with that. Okay, so we had so i'm sorry
Mantio or menteo. Yeah
Uh is the current location?
Manteo
Manteo, I was just so wrong. Manteo sounds like a place though, doesn't it?
I mean you can call it that if you want
It's probably got a nice uh, manteo
Franyl lens there franelle
You got me so down
When cheese yeah, I think you're messing with me down
You're gonna record me and use ai to repeat that forever down in when cheese was the original location
I'm gonna replace our um podcast intro song with you saying when cheese when cheese like a foghorn
Manteo
All right
All right. So now so it's been relocated or the the model. How does that work?
Was it a replica that was relocated the original was relocated?
Why you ask me i'm gonna tell you later. Oh
But i'm just saying that the original actually the first three lighthouses
were in wanchese
At the south part and then the replica was built in manteo and i'll tell you why so
We've already gone through the first one first one's done
second one
1853 a petition was sent to the lighthouse board saying they needed a new roanoke marshes light
Because the land where the original light was now being sold for a cheaper price
So they're like, hey this guy's finally
Got some sense
So we should buy it
So congress set aside ten thousand dollars to build it in 1854, but it wasn't finished until 1858
I can't really I don't really know why just delays. It's not too long. It's four years solid
Is that normal in the construction in lighthouse world? It seems like it's not that long. We've told some stories where it's taken
A long time. I always go over budget always takes longer than they thought. Yeah, so anyway
That one so the second one
I couldn't find what the first one looked like
The second one was octagonal with a lantern room on top attached to the seabed by seven piles
But it was like marshy land. So it was like pretty shallow water
And I also had a fourth order lens with a fixed white light
So it was taken out of service by the confederates during the civil war but reinstated in
1863 but within 10 years the marsh land underneath the lighthouse had like washed away
Like exposing more and more of the the piles that it was on
At that point it was like in 10 feet of water and so they were like
We need to either fix this or build a new one
But the support piles were surrounded by like cast iron where they were originally in the water
But because the water level changes and like corrosion the wood was now totally exposed and had like shipworm
Oh, no. Yeah
So they were totally compromised. So they added a trio of copper piles at each corner of the lighthouse, which it was an octagon
So like that's a ton of copper
Yeah, but to fix all the damage would have been more expensive than a new lighthouse at that point
so congress set aside fifteen thousand dollars for a new lighthouse and
The difficulty of building at the current location meant that they had to wait for another five thousand dollars to come
A year later in 1876 before they could start construction. So just more expensive than they anticipated
So this is a pulled up picture of the third lighthouse. So a year after that 1877 the third
Roanoke marshes lighthouse was built
I like kind of like the boat. That's so cool. Yeah
So at this point, this is what you call like originally when I first saw it
I was like, oh, it's an integral lighthouse, but it's actually called a screw pile lighthouse
Which is not one that we covered in our lighthouse types
No
So it's just because it's on screw piles that go into the
Seabed and so it's called a screw pile lighthouse and i'm sure there's like other things about it that make it different than
Just a lighthouse on piles. So the structure itself is what makes it. It's not the shape of the building
No, the structure is screw pile and screw piles
Screw into the bed. I would think so. They're put in I didn't look too deep into this could be really interesting
Yeah, i'll have to though because I left it out of our lighthouse types. There's one I think
um
The us LHS has a really close relationship with
That's a similar style. I don't know if it's screw piles. Oh, yes. I know which one you're talking about
It's also kind of like a hexagon or something, right?
I know which one you're talking about and it's like in a river or sound or something
Yes, it was part of the auction that they did for lighthouse business
I really wanted it, but it was like said it was for one night
It was worth like 500 something and somebody bid a thousand dollars right away. So nobody else touched it
Like dang it
And if you look at this picture, you can see it's exactly like the lighthouse that we went and visited that just happens to be
Yeah, there ain't no pier
Where's a pier? There ain't no bridge going out there. It's a whole bunch of screw piles
So anyway
The third lighthouse which you can see a replica of today is white and it's like a square dwelling with a light on top
Supported by seven screw screw piles
The fog bell boats and fourth order lens were brought over from the old light and then that one was dismantled
So okay. So anytime there's a roanoke marshes lighthouse like a new one that's replaced
You know how like in a lot of instances they build a new lighthouse and then the other ones just left there falls away
Yeah. Yeah, like the three sisters one where they just fall into the ocean eventually
Took care of that
recycled yeah
So so far there's only been one at a time, which is nice
Yeah, they probably find something to do with the other pieces and so that you said they brought over the bell. That's really bell
Yeah, the bell the boats and the lens now the the boats we did see they're inside weren't they I forgot about there
Yeah, I wonder if it's supposed to be like what they have shown in this photo. And of course the lens that's really neat
Yeah, of course cool
1886 so less than 10 years later
The light was changed to fixed red for instead of a fixed white and then five years after that
They changed it to a sector light so refer to episode 36 for our section sector light
Characteristic blah blah blah and sectors are pretty cool. I messed up the sentence. I wanted to say blah blah blah blah blah
What what episode is that?
36 um, but okay. That was what I asked. Okay. I've forgotten what number you just said
It's after work listen if
Anyone listening to the podcast is like me. They said yep. It's in an episode. She said the number I don't like could it could have been
It could be anything. Yeah
It doesn't reflect like on our relationship though. You listen to me pretty well, right? Sometimes we talk about episodes and there's a lot of
The red sector that was part of this new light characteristic
highlighted some of the dangerous areas areas in the crowet and sound and
And they did this by installing red glass panels in the lantern room
So I think that was like in the past we've seen that they just put like a frame like a metal frame
Inside the lantern room, but it would need to be fixed there
So maybe like screw it into the floor or something and then there's a glass panel inside
So anytime the light flashes or if there's light, right? Yeah surrounds the it's not like it because at first I read that like they replaced
Pan prisms. Oh, and I was like that would be way too expensive when they could just put up a panel like an actual panel
So then I was thinking like oh, maybe they replaced a panel of the actual lantern room with red
But it would be easier for them to just do a surround a piece of glass. Yeah, and then just nail it in the floor
Yeah, so anyway, I don't have the details about exactly how they did that but
You're probably right question. Yes the sectors. I
when we looked at sector
flash patterns light patterns
You know, it was red clear and then green or red clear red or right?
It had multiple options to help direct sailors. Yeah, right. Yeah. So in this is there a way that
boats chips
dinghies would come into the
Sound the sound so they stay on that line
I think it wasn't difficult to get into or out of the sound and so it wasn't like
It was warning of like the red part was like you're probably like you're heading right towards the Roanoke Island and it starts to get
Marshy, you know, that's like shallow water and like stuff and so it's like pick one way or the other
It's white on either side of this red
I see so it's like you go into Roanoke sound or you go into the crow attend sound that makes sense
Yeah, so like and but I know what you're talking about the other ones
It's like black or white or there's red where it's like, oh we talked about well, there's range lights and there's the
one over the other that's range
Another one
I have to go listen to my own podcast apparently anyway shortly after that they added 80
creosoted wooden piles
Which I don't look huh? I think that means they're oiled
Yeah, I didn't look too deep into it, but it sounded like they put tar on it or something and it makes them waterproof
Yeah, or more water resistant cool. This lighthouse had been bumped into by seven boats
All right, like just are you blind like did you miss the lighthouse?
That's funny it's insane so
after it was struck so many times they decided to surround it with
Basically just like wooden beams sticking out of the water. It's like if you get too close
You're gonna hit a wood beam instead of the lighthouse
so funny
but I think they were they were kind of spread out was like to the north and south and
They were spread out like in clusters every 20 feet or something
And the range was like 150 feet from the lighthouse on each side
So it was a pretty big radius where you couldn't get too close to the lighthouse with your boat
Nice
1899 the station's fog bell was replaced as it had become badly cracked and
After two years this was replaced with a blower siren operated by an oil engine. So just like air compressed
Yeah
Updating you know keeping up with the times
But they kept the bell
They just didn't use it anymore because the bell is still there
Yeah, they just didn't use it anymore
or like
Maybe they included it in the replica because that was the only thing that was left
because that was the original plan was to have the bell up there or maybe that's not even the bell that they used for
Maybe it's just a little I don't know all the details. It's a tiny bell. So
Yeah, I did include the photo that you took of the bell. So we'll see that in a little bit
I have a picture that I think shows some of the piles here
These wooden clusters
So it seems like there should be more than that and this is a really old photo must be in line with the way ships
Would often come yeah, it must been it looks like a lot of wide open water. It doesn't look that big on maps
But it's a cool picture. Have you seen that is a cool photo
Like when you're looking through the US LHS archives, how many photos are postcards? Have you seen that? No, they used to do like
Postcards for lighthouses and there was tons of them like at first they were drawings and then they were photos and
And people submit them to the the archives so that you can check them out. That's cool
I'll have to include some sometimes I always kind of skip over them because the pictures aren't very clear
You know, we have really good ones now
That aren't postcards. I'm gonna I'm tempted to use this is our
Cover photo. Well, or I could put a picture of us. How rare is that? Yeah
One of the cover photos you can see our beautiful faces who are these two random people these white people these Kansans who talk about lighthouses?
Man
This is a cool picture old. I wonder I didn't say exactly what year was taken in so wish I knew
During this time when they added the new siren the keeper was Charles Pugh. Well, the assistant keeper was Charles Pugh
Pugh
Oh
and then he came back as headkeeper in
1907 and he was repeatedly recognized for saving those in distress at the lighthouse seeds. He was just a really good lighthouse MVP
Yeah, we always talk about how keepers are
Like they're supposed they're in charge of the light, but they're also like
lifesaving stations. They're also in charge of keeping an eye out and at the very least reporting if there was
accidents or
People that needed help but most of the time they were the kind of men that would just get up and be like
Better getting my little boat that's hanging outside and so much responsibility. Go get them. Yeah
Crazy, so he did all kind of he like piloted disabled yachts into harbors. I'm like, bro
My god would free boats from ice if people were stuck
Even transported those that were stuck on a seaplane to shore and then back again the next morning. So like went to go pick them up
That's awesome. He's a really great guy
during the last year of World War one the water froze around the lighthouse and
Pugh didn't get supplies for like weeks and they just couldn't send anybody to get out there and there was like I didn't put it all
In here, but there was a story of like a Navy cook who was just like like he knew him or something
It was like I'm getting over there. Like I'm I'm gonna go help him out. So he
Delivered supplies to this guy. I don't know how if it sounds epic
Yeah, if the lighthouse board was like we can't help you
It's like how do you get over here? That's risky to I know
Good for him. Yeah, so Charles Pugh was awarded a commissioners efficiency star in 1916
This was something I mentioned in the uniform history buoy and I didn't make note of
What episode that was but that was a good history boy. I loved that one talking about the uniforms
I think it was an earlier episode
So he also he got another one in 1922 and a superintendent's efficiency star in 1924
Which there must have been many more than that because you only get a commissioner star after you're awarded three consecutive
Superintendent stars Wow, so he was
Basically, he was very well kept and he was an excellent keeper super of the month
He was often rewarded for being such a being such a good guy
Now were these like stars that they would decorate their uniforms?
So they would wear that's pretty cool. So cool very official and then at the end of the year
They would send them back. So then you it was like a temporary holder. Yes, like honor you got to honor it
Yeah, and send it back pretty neat the first keeper at the first lighthouse
Actually, the only keeper at the first lighthouse because he was there the entire 88 years was little John Pugh and so it's the same last name
although
You can't assume that they're related just because it's the same last name
Yeah, but Pugh is kind of a it seems it seems unique
So I don't know if there was any relation there
But it also made me realize that little John was actually a name like it wasn't a nickname on the birth certificate
Little John two words little John. I knew a guy whose last name was little John. Oh really?
Yeah, oh my gosh. I think of
in
Robin Hood
Huh the rapper little John? No
No, I'm thinking about Robin Hood. Yeah the bear little John. Oh, I forgot that character
Robin Hood and little John walking through the forest. I think it's little John
Now I'm confused because there's a prince John isn't there? Oh
What's wrong with me? Let's see
Robin Hood and little John. Okay, so I was right. How does that go?
son son son son
Robin Hood and little John
Son son son son the other one walking through the forest laughing back and forth to what the other has to say
Thank you
Okay
Moving on the lighthouse the third one was decommissioned by the Coast Guard in 1955. I
can't remember exactly what happened and like because I feel like that's a pretty good spot for a lighthouse like cuz
Yeah, the island is you have to split around the island to go into either sound
You'd think you'd want a lighthouse there
But maybe it was just because it was hard to get out to because you have to row like you can't walk to the lighthouse
I don't know. But anyway, they decommissioned in 55 and they suggested the town of Mantio purchase it and rolly
Relocated
Reload. What did I say? Roly Roly Roly locate
Relay Kate Roly locate. Oh
We never record at 7 7 7 o'clock it's not 7 o'clock 7 o'clock
We got to go to bed in like an hour
What happened
Ah Relocate it to the town water waterfront
So I'm not really sure and I was almost what is that Canadian water waterfront? I don't think that's Canadian
But I've heard people say that
You know wash down wash waterfront. There was my football coach. I don't think you Canadian. He's just redneck
Okay, I'll just follow my notes I
Am interested why man CEO like why why did they why did the Coast Guard say hey, maybe it's like the only
Major like city it seems the major like town on this island
So the you should take it where it's at now and I don't mean to step on your content again
But it's a nice downtown remember house like nice stores. Yeah, like an old downtown beautiful
condos and apartments like like historical downtown is historical and
Looking expensive. Very nice
Expensive very nice. I don't mean that as a criticism
Yeah, wonderful everything like flowers planted in every space and like everything's painted white like it's not dirty. It's so clean
Potentially, there's a history there of that was like the the trade center. Yeah, true
The what is it the harbor because there was a little bit of a harbor there? Yeah. Yeah the sailboats
Yeah, had to go somewhere that might be true. I don't know. I'm guessing but before
Mantio could purchase it and Elijah Tate bought it some random civilian. Hmm probably with money to spare and
Cut the lighthouse from its foundation and placed on a barge to deliver to its new home
So just lighthouse sitting on a barge
However, okay, just as it was on the move
Rough-seas literally toppled the lighthouse off of this barge and it sunk into the sound no way
Yeah, and I couldn't find unlike an approximate location of where it is. So it's just like dunzo. That's twice now
I wonder if it's like dunzo
one two three dunzo, I
wonder if it totally was destroyed or
If like the lighthouse itself sank to the bottom. Yeah, well in the couple of like
crazy
sources
toppled is a word that makes it seem like
It was it didn't fall apart or anything. It just slid off like slid off the barge
So anyway, that's just like lost. Can you imagine Jimmy? Did you do those ratchet straps?
This guy he bought a couple of other screwpile lighthouses in the area as well Elijah was collecting lighthouse Elijah
Yeah, he was like, you know, what really makes me a lighthouse enthusiast is to own them
And he cut it off put him in my backyard look
Next to my Hummer
He put him on a barge and then his barge didn't sink but it lost the light rocks and I guess that's embarrassing
Yeah, what did you have it on wheels?
Don't know and we'll never know could make a cool t-shirt a lighthouse toppling into the ocean
Rip Roanoke Marshes three SS Elijah
So the town of Manteo did not give up and they decided to build a replica as part of their 1999 centennial celebration
Okay, but due to funding delays and a couple of hurricanes I
Should not laugh. I'm sorry pushed back past the centennial moment and instead was built in 2004
So okay, it's a lot of time, but they made it happen
Okay, we almost saw it 20 years later. I know it's crazy. I
Know and it was we were like, why is it 2004 like?
Why yeah, do they build lighthouses? I forgot about that. It was so early. Oh, yeah. I mean honor banks was episode 10. So
So cute son, we've come so far. Yeah, we do slightly better job at this point
We have a system now at the very least marginally
So anyway, they built this replica where the wastewater plant used to be for Manteo
I got a little picky they had a what what a wastewater plant at the end of the pier on the water. Oh my gosh
Isn't that wild I thought it smelled like shit. No
No, it was beautiful. Yeah, so cool little photo I am glad that they
Relocated that yeah, cuz you know that was just like being discharged into the water
The fish loved it. You oh, yeah
Just good fishing right there moving on the Coast Guard loaned a fourth order lens for display in the lantern room
So you can like climb up and go and see it very cool and you can go in and check out their museum
Which we talked about run by the Roanoke Island Maritime Museum. I can't believe here's some photos. Wow, who took those?
They're so good and so clear see we actually had a great opportunity
Nobody else on the pier like it turned out really nice. Yeah. Yeah, it's carefully timed
I was waiting for people to walk out of sight, but that's normal. What is that year on there?
Is that say 19? I don't know. It looks like it says US
Coast Guard
1948 I almost hit my face on the microphone
1948 and that that was some seven years before they decommissioned it. So I
wonder if the Coast Guard was like
Decommissioned the oh the oh the old one. Yeah, I don't know about this a
Bell would have been lost with the lighthouse. So is that a replica? Yeah. Yeah
It's all a replica. I just don't know if the the Coast Guard also like donated a a bell
Can you make a replica that includes? Yeah something that says
You can't see I
Don't know details. There's probably some licensing
Stuff but probably would have been cool with it. Well
When we go back we can ask them. Yeah, I'd like to go back to this area
It will I would too. We've got a lot of trips to go on so
It'll be a bit but it was the Outer Banks was fun. Roanoke Island was really fun
It's a it seemed like a nice place. You could just stay and enjoy it staying there
Yeah, and I remember we said that whenever we went and saw this area
We were like, oh we should have stayed a night in this little town and seen everything but
We just didn't know we just didn't know no better. Well and on the map as we saw it's not far from Nags Head
Yeah, another very close
Busy place for the area. So very cool. Good job. That's Roanoke Marsh's lighthouse
So I'll have to cover a Roanoke River sometime. It's it's different, which is nice like visually
It's a pretty different lighthouse also screw pile. What's this lighthouse on screen? That's the lighthouse
All right, well that's what I got
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