WEBVTT 00:00:00.140 --> 00:00:03.240 Hi everybody, I'm Emily. And I'm Vince. And this 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:15.419 is The Lighthouse Lowdown. Nice. Correct my chair. 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:20.739 Happy Wednesday for us. Thursday. Yeah, Thursday. 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:23.160 Yeah, nice. Almost Friday. I don't even know 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:25.660 what day it is. My Garmin watch is having me 00:00:25.660 --> 00:00:28.260 do lots of arm circles, which has made my neck 00:00:28.260 --> 00:00:33.439 very stiff. But I'm ready for the podcast. All 00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:36.799 right. Any questions before we start? About what? 00:00:37.179 --> 00:00:39.600 I don't know, my day, how it's going. Oh, for 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:42.340 the audience. So I was listening to another podcast 00:00:42.340 --> 00:00:44.780 and they were talking about how you should include 00:00:44.780 --> 00:00:47.899 all of your flaws because it builds credibility. 00:00:48.340 --> 00:00:51.119 Oh, yeah. It's one way to, you know, clearly 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:54.039 we're kind of goofy and it does or doesn't work 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:57.299 sometimes. And the fact that we have so much 00:00:57.299 --> 00:01:00.750 out there that's... Of a more natural conversation 00:01:00.750 --> 00:01:04.450 quality. Yeah. Supposedly it builds some type 00:01:04.450 --> 00:01:08.329 of trustworthiness. Yeah. Yeah, I understand 00:01:08.329 --> 00:01:10.170 that. That's why all of our intros are the way 00:01:10.170 --> 00:01:12.109 they are, in case you were wondering. Well, you 00:01:12.109 --> 00:01:14.069 always want people to be real. You don't want 00:01:14.069 --> 00:01:17.290 them to be like. Yeah, but they're not. Like 00:01:17.290 --> 00:01:19.250 most of the time they're not. Most productions, 00:01:19.430 --> 00:01:25.799 most podcasts, most shows, most radio. Only trimmed, 00:01:25.900 --> 00:01:28.500 only polished. Anyways. Yeah, well, I think if 00:01:28.500 --> 00:01:32.900 I were trying to communicate that I was well 00:01:32.900 --> 00:01:35.640 -respected and very knowledgeable on the subject, 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:38.040 I wouldn't want to... You would speak with an 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:42.939 English accent. That's a good one. History buoy. 00:01:43.060 --> 00:01:46.760 I have one. What episode? What episode? 83. 83. 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:52.209 Welcome. Why did you decide to cut into my groove 00:01:52.209 --> 00:01:53.909 like that? What is a history buoy in case we 00:01:53.909 --> 00:01:56.150 have new listeners? We don't. No, I'm just kidding. 00:01:56.689 --> 00:01:59.010 We have new subscribers every week. Thank you 00:01:59.010 --> 00:02:01.250 all on YouTube. Oh, yeah. I saw a couple of them 00:02:01.250 --> 00:02:05.189 come in. I get emails. It's just a little blip. 00:02:05.189 --> 00:02:07.489 Maybe something related to the episode. Maybe 00:02:07.489 --> 00:02:10.909 something not. Just something fun to give a little 00:02:10.909 --> 00:02:13.669 information about. I like it. The history buoy. 00:02:13.669 --> 00:02:15.969 We've got to warm up before we start the lighthouse. 00:02:16.250 --> 00:02:18.210 That's right. So we have a history buoy. Let's 00:02:18.210 --> 00:02:21.719 float this thing. Speaking of floating, we're 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:23.539 going to do an extension of our history buoy 00:02:23.539 --> 00:02:26.400 from last time, which was life -saving stations. 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:30.159 And we missed a category because there were only 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:33.400 two stations within this category. And I think 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:36.280 it's important that we give this category its 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:39.000 screen time as well as the more well -known versions. 00:02:39.099 --> 00:02:42.550 So today we're going to cover floating. Life 00:02:42.550 --> 00:02:45.810 -saving stations. Cool. Which was a very special 00:02:45.810 --> 00:02:48.689 small category, two stations, and I'm going to 00:02:48.689 --> 00:02:51.169 talk very briefly about each of them. All right. 00:02:51.169 --> 00:02:53.770 So, like I said last episode, we talked about 00:02:53.770 --> 00:02:56.490 the kinds of U .S. life -saving service stations, 00:02:56.610 --> 00:02:58.930 but this was the one that we did not talk about 00:02:58.930 --> 00:03:02.650 because it's only got a couple members. There 00:03:02.650 --> 00:03:05.050 was two floating life -saving stations in the 00:03:05.050 --> 00:03:08.050 United States, one in, is it Louisville, Kentucky? 00:03:08.430 --> 00:03:11.599 Yeah, Louisville. Louisville, Kentucky, and one 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:14.919 in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. The Kentucky 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:17.740 one was an inland floating life -saving station 00:03:17.740 --> 00:03:20.620 called the Ohio River Life -Saving Station No. 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:25.080 10. I don't know much about if they all had numbers. 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:27.960 Yeah, I don't remember any other life -saving 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:30.659 station having a number connected to it, so I'm 00:03:30.659 --> 00:03:33.000 not sure why specifically this one had a number. 00:03:33.340 --> 00:03:35.960 But it was stationed at the falls of the Ohio 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:38.159 River, which I read was the only obstruction 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:41.310 in the entire length. of the ohio river was this 00:03:41.310 --> 00:03:44.590 one area that was just had falls so i don't know 00:03:44.590 --> 00:03:48.509 if that's still true today you know like i don't 00:03:48.509 --> 00:03:50.930 know i would kind of i'd bet so that's kind of 00:03:50.930 --> 00:03:53.090 cool but apparently it's two and a half miles 00:03:53.090 --> 00:03:55.469 of white water rapids so it had to be marked 00:03:55.469 --> 00:03:59.030 with something and so i pulled up a photo they 00:03:59.030 --> 00:04:02.289 have of the plans when they were drawing up they 00:04:02.289 --> 00:04:04.969 kind of showed this obstruction in the river 00:04:04.969 --> 00:04:08.129 and like what the flow looked like and how they 00:04:08.129 --> 00:04:11.050 were gonna And then we have a picture here of 00:04:11.050 --> 00:04:14.569 the life -saving station. It looks like a paddle 00:04:14.569 --> 00:04:17.329 wheel boat. It does. It looks like a steamboat. 00:04:17.629 --> 00:04:22.490 What was that movie? Murder on the Nile? Oh, 00:04:22.509 --> 00:04:25.670 yeah. Death on the Nile? Death on the Nile. Something 00:04:25.670 --> 00:04:29.209 like that. Mystery movie film, which was also 00:04:29.209 --> 00:04:32.529 a book, I think. Yes. But that type of boat, 00:04:32.689 --> 00:04:35.470 if you want to look that up. Same as Murder on 00:04:35.470 --> 00:04:38.189 the Orient Express, right? The same author. Yeah. 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:40.800 Very good movie. Different boat. Oh, and there 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:42.660 was one with a ghost or something. I don't know. 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:47.060 Yeah, yeah. I wouldn't be able to remember. We 00:04:47.060 --> 00:04:50.439 saw it in theaters. Ghost of Venice or something. 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:53.839 Murder and... I can't remember. Anyways. Anyway, 00:04:53.939 --> 00:04:56.620 yes. Same vibes. Which is probably, they took 00:04:56.620 --> 00:04:59.620 some, probably took some, what is it called? 00:04:59.899 --> 00:05:03.019 Inspiration. Yes, inspiration for this from... 00:05:03.389 --> 00:05:05.449 what they had at the time that resembled it. 00:05:05.490 --> 00:05:08.110 So that would make sense. But they provided rescue 00:05:08.110 --> 00:05:11.230 services at the water rapids there for all the 00:05:11.230 --> 00:05:14.230 vessel traffic through the water system. So the 00:05:14.230 --> 00:05:17.310 foundation consists of a barge. So we got that 00:05:17.310 --> 00:05:21.050 much. We know that. And the superstructure of 00:05:21.050 --> 00:05:23.350 the station has two decks and a lookout tower, 00:05:23.529 --> 00:05:26.649 which is pretty cute. Cute little thing. Tiny 00:05:26.649 --> 00:05:30.290 cupola. It had steel pipe stanchions. which supported 00:05:30.290 --> 00:05:33.089 a walkway around the second deck and the eaves 00:05:33.089 --> 00:05:35.649 of the roof. And the roof was built with a pronounced 00:05:35.649 --> 00:05:38.410 crown. I don't really know what that means exactly, 00:05:38.550 --> 00:05:42.769 if it's like this looks like a balcony kind of 00:05:42.769 --> 00:05:46.089 like railing. Maybe. They also had a boathouse, 00:05:46.110 --> 00:05:49.350 which was located on one end, which housed the 00:05:49.350 --> 00:05:51.209 surf boats needed for the station, which they 00:05:51.209 --> 00:05:55.300 called Reckless and Ready. Two boats. One called 00:05:55.300 --> 00:05:56.420 Reckless. Oh, those are the names. One called 00:05:56.420 --> 00:05:58.519 Ready. Yeah. Reckless and Ready. I'm like, those 00:05:58.519 --> 00:06:00.319 are very different vibes. That's cool though. 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:04.839 Yeah. So this one opened in 1881 and was decommissioned 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:07.519 in the 1970s. So almost a century on the water. 00:06:07.899 --> 00:06:10.379 Kind of crazy. That is crazy. Especially, I mean, 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:14.160 right next to, they're not like waterfalls, but 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:16.500 they're rapids. Yeah, there's water moving. That 00:06:16.500 --> 00:06:18.060 sounds terrible. Going on. That sounds like a 00:06:18.060 --> 00:06:20.139 very hazardous place. Yeah. They had tons of 00:06:20.139 --> 00:06:22.139 stories online about stuff that they encountered. 00:06:22.889 --> 00:06:25.470 Lots of rescues and things. So they were, like, 00:06:25.470 --> 00:06:28.490 always on because traffic is constantly moving 00:06:28.490 --> 00:06:30.050 through the area. I don't know. I mean, I don't 00:06:30.050 --> 00:06:31.449 know what it was like for, like, light ships 00:06:31.449 --> 00:06:35.490 with how often, like, I don't know how often, 00:06:35.509 --> 00:06:38.889 like, big ships would come through a harbor or 00:06:38.889 --> 00:06:42.189 something. A lot, I think. Yeah. But here, so 00:06:42.189 --> 00:06:44.709 just to clarify, this lookout tower, there's 00:06:44.709 --> 00:06:46.850 no light in there, right? No. It's not signaling. 00:06:46.850 --> 00:06:51.170 It's unlit. It was just a crew of people to... 00:06:51.629 --> 00:06:53.269 go out on the water if something went wrong. 00:06:54.110 --> 00:06:56.870 So our second one was the Boster Harbor one called 00:06:56.870 --> 00:06:59.610 City Point Station. I have a photo of that one 00:06:59.610 --> 00:07:03.250 as well. Well, it's not a photo. It's like a 00:07:03.250 --> 00:07:06.250 painting, I think. A postcard. Might have been 00:07:06.250 --> 00:07:09.490 a photo at one time. Yeah, maybe. Because there 00:07:09.490 --> 00:07:11.790 is a person in the picture, which I can't imagine. 00:07:11.889 --> 00:07:14.769 Well, I don't know. They painted people before. 00:07:15.810 --> 00:07:20.899 So this one opened in 1896. So just like... 15 00:07:20.899 --> 00:07:23.720 years after the other floating station. So there 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:26.240 had to have been some successes that would make 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:28.540 them want to build another one. Yeah. And this 00:07:28.540 --> 00:07:31.100 one was decommissioned during World War II sometime. 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:34.759 Oh, I didn't look up how to pronounce this. Dorchester 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:37.339 Bay, that's what I'm going to say. Of course. 00:07:37.620 --> 00:07:40.519 Which had lots of yacht and sailboat accidents. 00:07:40.660 --> 00:07:43.579 So we're in the bougie area, lots of liberties 00:07:43.579 --> 00:07:47.579 being taken with their fancy boats. And thus, 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:50.540 we need somebody to be keeping an eye on. It's 00:07:50.540 --> 00:07:53.920 crazy. I don't know that I've ever seen that 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:55.300 style of boat before. I don't even know what 00:07:55.300 --> 00:07:57.199 to say about it, where it can launch boats from 00:07:57.199 --> 00:08:01.860 inside. Yeah. Like a channel. Maybe the military 00:08:01.860 --> 00:08:04.980 has something like that. Oh, it's like a boathouse, 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:09.980 but the boathouse is also floating. Yes. It is 00:08:09.980 --> 00:08:11.980 interesting. I never noticed the big gaping hole 00:08:11.980 --> 00:08:14.740 in the side. Catamaran? Is that what that style 00:08:14.740 --> 00:08:16.000 is? Oh, I don't know. Like where it's got the 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:20.230 multiple. It's not a pontoon. Anyways, you got 00:08:20.230 --> 00:08:23.209 some boat research to do. At least he said that 00:08:23.209 --> 00:08:27.069 very assuredly. It's not a pontoon. But yeah, 00:08:27.209 --> 00:08:30.350 interestingly, that's one of those hard words. 00:08:30.730 --> 00:08:34.610 Interestingly. Interestingly. Life -saving stations 00:08:34.610 --> 00:08:37.169 had keepers just like lighthouses did. So they 00:08:37.169 --> 00:08:39.409 talk a lot about how someone who's stationed 00:08:39.409 --> 00:08:42.090 at one life -saving station as a keeper will 00:08:42.090 --> 00:08:45.789 retire and go to another life -saving station. 00:08:46.029 --> 00:08:47.730 Yeah. So I just didn't know that. I thought it 00:08:47.730 --> 00:08:50.059 was interesting. That you'd have a keeper. I 00:08:50.059 --> 00:08:52.519 mean, it makes sense. A head honcho. Someone 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:54.120 in charge of the operation. Yeah, that's going 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:56.419 to travel between. That'd be interesting. I feel 00:08:56.419 --> 00:08:58.860 like that'd be a fun job. You know, the life 00:08:58.860 --> 00:09:00.559 -saving part is a little stressful. You'd have 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:03.679 to get in the water a ton. Like keepers, they 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:05.100 don't have to get in the water a lot, except 00:09:05.100 --> 00:09:07.200 for when they're like really exemplary. Yeah. 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:09.279 Like keepers where they actually go out there 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:11.519 instead of just like alerting somebody. Listen, 00:09:11.620 --> 00:09:13.440 I'm aware this is a dumb thing to say, but I'm 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:15.639 going to put it out there. You know, like Navy 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:20.899 SEALs. like special forces where I don't know 00:09:20.899 --> 00:09:22.559 if you've ever watched like any other training, 00:09:22.740 --> 00:09:26.639 their, their buds system. It's crazy. Uh, their 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:29.379 training that they do, but anyone who goes through 00:09:29.379 --> 00:09:33.940 that Navy program has to be extremely well adept 00:09:33.940 --> 00:09:38.279 at swimming and, uh, very mentally tough. And 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:39.740 they, they do all these things where they try 00:09:39.740 --> 00:09:42.580 to drown you basically. Uh, and they, you know, 00:09:42.580 --> 00:09:44.559 some people do drown and they have to revive 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:48.940 them. Oh my gosh. It's a real crazy thing. These 00:09:48.940 --> 00:09:51.840 are not normal men. These are crazy people. They 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:54.179 don't have that thing that's supposed to make 00:09:54.179 --> 00:09:56.639 you scared of living or dying. Highly intense 00:09:56.639 --> 00:09:58.679 folks. And I'm glad they're out there protecting 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:02.740 us. But they have to become super, super, super 00:10:02.740 --> 00:10:05.399 comfortable swimming in water and become very 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:09.059 athletic in that endeavor. Anyways, back in these 00:10:09.059 --> 00:10:12.259 days where we're talking about life -saving people, 00:10:12.519 --> 00:10:16.299 the top thing we talked about for... lighthouse 00:10:16.299 --> 00:10:20.279 keeper deaths was drowning, which seems kind 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:23.159 of obvious. But I wonder, like, these folks, 00:10:23.299 --> 00:10:25.340 like, were they swimming every day? Are they 00:10:25.340 --> 00:10:29.399 doing dives? Are they doing drills or anything? 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:32.220 Like, was it, you know, were these all 20 -year 00:10:32.220 --> 00:10:34.539 -old men that were just ready to swim and rescue 00:10:34.539 --> 00:10:37.139 people? Or are these people of all ages? Is this 00:10:37.139 --> 00:10:40.600 something that you would retire from early? I 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:41.740 don't know. I can't believe you talked through 00:10:41.740 --> 00:10:45.100 my whole sentence. My headset's really killing 00:10:45.100 --> 00:10:48.679 me. I'm sorry. Do you want to try it? My last 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:51.480 of three headsets? Yeah, yeah. If anyone wants 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:54.620 to sponsor this podcast so I can not hold my 00:10:54.620 --> 00:10:57.259 hand to my ear to keep the wire connected to 00:10:57.259 --> 00:11:01.279 the other wire, please reach out. We're poor. 00:11:01.620 --> 00:11:04.159 We're planning a wedding. We have no money. We 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:09.580 have negative money. Hold, please. We'll be right 00:11:09.580 --> 00:11:14.600 back after no sponsored message. Did you see 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:17.500 that you can, you probably didn't get this message. 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:23.240 Oh, I like that. Dance. Dance. All right. Just 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:27.440 so everyone knows, now I am wearing a set of 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:32.299 Ferrari brand, like the car. So they should really 00:11:32.299 --> 00:11:36.019 sponsor this. Headset. Well, these are from circa 00:11:36.019 --> 00:11:43.639 2015, 2014. My brother gave me these. And they 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:47.679 are mid -level quality headphones, to be honest 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:51.779 with you. Yeah. But they are in the form of the 00:11:51.779 --> 00:11:56.980 Pitlane Formula One headset. I don't think Ferrari's 00:11:56.980 --> 00:11:59.059 in Formula One, so that's even more confusing. 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:01.659 Oh, absolutely they are. Yes, they are. Oh, you're 00:12:01.659 --> 00:12:06.580 having a stroke. I was thinking of NASCAR. Oh, 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:09.820 yeah. Oh, yes. They're not in that. For sure. 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:15.559 Anyways, so. I'm so glad that this problem has 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:18.679 been solved and just in time because we're moving 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:20.940 on to our lighthouse of the day. All right, let's 00:12:20.940 --> 00:12:24.620 go. We're going to be talking about a Georgia 00:12:24.620 --> 00:12:27.419 lighthouse today. This is our first Georgia lighthouse 00:12:27.419 --> 00:12:30.299 that we're covering. The state of Georgia in 00:12:30.299 --> 00:12:33.279 the U .S. of A. The peach. Just to clarify, there 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:36.019 is a country. We're talking about the state, 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:41.970 the U .S. state. Okay. I pulled up a map of where 00:12:41.970 --> 00:12:45.350 we're going. The Sapelo Lighthouse. Sapelo Island 00:12:45.350 --> 00:12:47.190 Lighthouse is what we're talking about today. 00:12:47.929 --> 00:12:51.850 And Sapelo Island is practically attached to 00:12:51.850 --> 00:12:54.149 the mainland of Georgia. But it's one of like 00:12:54.149 --> 00:12:57.690 the big barrier islands that's along the coast. 00:12:57.789 --> 00:13:00.870 The fourth largest. Golf courses. Is there really? 00:13:01.090 --> 00:13:03.309 Oh, I'm sure. I'm not surprised by that. The 00:13:03.309 --> 00:13:06.590 history here points to being an affluent community. 00:13:07.090 --> 00:13:10.980 Nice. In a lot of areas. It's 12 miles long and 00:13:10.980 --> 00:13:14.340 3 miles wide and was originally inhabited by 00:13:14.340 --> 00:13:17.779 Spanish missionaries and also French and English 00:13:17.779 --> 00:13:21.720 settlers in the past. That is until 1802 when 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:24.740 the island was purchased by Thomas Spalding. 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:27.419 This guy has gone down in history. We have lots. 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:30.259 He has his own Wikipedia page. Spalding as in 00:13:30.259 --> 00:13:37.820 the sports brand? Unlikely. Okay. I mean, possible, 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:41.139 but I think unlikely. When you hear the history. 00:13:41.860 --> 00:13:44.559 On the island, he established a productive plantation, 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:48.120 growing sea island cotton, sugar cane, and rice 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:50.779 with the help of roughly 400 slaves. Yeah, I 00:13:50.779 --> 00:13:53.679 saw where this was going. And he had lots of 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:57.919 other plantations and, like, island. He owned 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:02.830 another island. His dad. became really rich and 00:14:02.830 --> 00:14:05.610 left it to his son, and he was a lawyer. Even 00:14:05.610 --> 00:14:07.350 though he never practiced, he went to Congress, 00:14:07.409 --> 00:14:14.470 and he was all up in history. In 1816, Spalding 00:14:14.470 --> 00:14:17.929 sold five acres at the southern end of the island 00:14:17.929 --> 00:14:20.850 for $1 for the building of a lighthouse. So it 00:14:20.850 --> 00:14:23.970 was just like a... What a deal. Yeah, the dollar 00:14:23.970 --> 00:14:28.429 was just a... What's the word? Formality? Yeah, 00:14:28.450 --> 00:14:31.399 like, yeah. Representative? Mm -hmm. A legality. 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:33.419 And I read a little bit about it. I won't go 00:14:33.419 --> 00:14:37.539 too deep. It's hard because, especially in this 00:14:37.539 --> 00:14:41.820 episode, you could go deep into anything for 00:14:41.820 --> 00:14:45.500 an episode. So I kind of have to refocus on the 00:14:45.500 --> 00:14:47.860 lighthouse. Especially, it's whenever it goes 00:14:47.860 --> 00:14:50.860 into history, like the Civil War, like around 00:14:50.860 --> 00:14:54.600 that era, everything. Civil War? I said civil. 00:14:55.620 --> 00:14:58.759 Let the record reflect. I guess I will listen 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:04.340 back and decide. Silver war? Maybe. And it started 00:15:04.340 --> 00:15:06.919 to silverware on them, and they really wanted 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:10.480 out of it. They are the worst. Okay, whatever. 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:13.320 I'm pretty sure I said civil, and you're just 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:15.860 still having your stroke from earlier. He said 00:15:15.860 --> 00:15:20.000 around the silver, the civil war. Anyway, I read 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:24.799 that he wanted this area to be a U .S. naval 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:28.360 base, and he thought that the lighthouse would. 00:15:29.469 --> 00:15:32.990 in that. I don't know what kind of stake he had 00:15:32.990 --> 00:15:36.470 in it being something like the U .S. Navy. I 00:15:36.470 --> 00:15:39.110 don't know. Maybe he liked the Navy. Maybe he 00:15:39.110 --> 00:15:42.210 wanted to fight the North and he was talking 00:15:42.210 --> 00:15:46.649 about the Confederate Army because he was a slave 00:15:46.649 --> 00:15:49.769 owner. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe he wanted money 00:15:49.769 --> 00:15:52.429 because he had property. Yeah, I think he was 00:15:52.429 --> 00:15:56.149 planning on being, you know, like president. 00:15:56.269 --> 00:15:59.440 The president. Mr. High Society. I think that 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:01.960 was his life goal. Back in the day, you'd just 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:04.100 be rich and you'd just be like, I'm going to 00:16:04.100 --> 00:16:05.960 be the president now. You know what? There's 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:08.600 only like 100 people here. My chances are pretty 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:14.559 good. But anyway, so he sold the five acres to 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:16.559 the U .S. so that they could build a lighthouse. 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:22.039 And Winslow Lewis, our... Winslow. Yeah. One 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:25.080 of our favorites. was contracted to build the 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:28.200 90 -foot tapered white brick lighthouse. Can 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:32.039 I guess? 1890. Winslow Lewis Lighthouse fell 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:37.279 early. No. Okay. It's shocking. This is the first 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:38.980 one. This must have been the golden one. Yeah, 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:42.620 this must have been before, you know, I won't 00:16:42.620 --> 00:16:45.480 continue, but it was brick. And the ones that 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:48.159 he built that were... really, really poor quality 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:51.000 were always rubble stone that fell apart. Yeah, 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:53.940 they stacked stones on top. Yeah, so I'm thinking... 00:16:53.940 --> 00:17:03.340 This was a brick. Maybe... House. Ow. Lighthouse. 00:17:05.940 --> 00:17:08.740 This is terrible. You're welcome. 1819, he started 00:17:08.740 --> 00:17:11.650 construction on this lighthouse. added 15 of 00:17:11.650 --> 00:17:14.869 his 16 -inch reflectors and lamps, which I read 00:17:14.869 --> 00:17:19.690 consumed 540 gallons of oil annually. Okay. That's 00:17:19.690 --> 00:17:22.710 a ton. That's a lot of oil. Lots and lots of 00:17:22.710 --> 00:17:25.410 oil. It doesn't sound like that much. Well, you're 00:17:25.410 --> 00:17:30.250 wrong. 500 gallons annually, 540. For just some 00:17:30.250 --> 00:17:34.049 lamps. 10 gallons a week, roughly. Okay. Think 00:17:34.049 --> 00:17:45.390 about a gallon. So... Whatever you're going to 00:17:45.390 --> 00:17:48.369 say, you're like, no. So I pulled a picture, 00:17:48.569 --> 00:17:52.789 a really old one, of the light tower when it 00:17:52.789 --> 00:17:55.750 was white and our keeper's cottage. Looks haunted. 00:17:56.349 --> 00:18:03.210 I can't remember what they said. Oh, it was basically 00:18:03.210 --> 00:18:05.849 disproven, so I didn't even write it down. It 00:18:05.849 --> 00:18:08.190 was some fact that they were like, this used 00:18:08.190 --> 00:18:11.670 to be the house of somebody, something haunted. 00:18:12.220 --> 00:18:14.819 and then they moved it to this location, and 00:18:14.819 --> 00:18:16.940 that was the Keeper's Cottage. But then they 00:18:16.940 --> 00:18:19.160 said that there's record of this house being 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:22.339 built as the Keeper's Cottage, so there was no 00:18:22.339 --> 00:18:25.059 point in mentioning it. But yes, haunted is the 00:18:25.059 --> 00:18:27.859 general vibe. The lighthouse was activated a 00:18:27.859 --> 00:18:37.299 year later, 1820, and marked... Doughboy? Doughboy 00:18:37.299 --> 00:18:45.869 sound? Doughboy? Doughboy? Doughboy? Is it D 00:18:45.869 --> 00:18:52.190 -B -O -I -S? D -O -B -O -Y. Doughboy. Oh, I have 00:18:52.190 --> 00:18:55.190 no idea. Okay, so I think it's Doughboy. Doughboy 00:18:55.190 --> 00:19:04.250 sound. Biggie Smalls. Biggie Smalls and Chance 00:19:04.250 --> 00:19:09.170 the Rapper. Doughboy sound. I don't think I ever 00:19:09.170 --> 00:19:11.009 have to mention it again. So we're just going 00:19:11.009 --> 00:19:13.609 to, I could have just wiped it out. Stop it. 00:19:16.009 --> 00:19:18.670 Marked it for the mariners traveling to and from 00:19:18.670 --> 00:19:21.829 the port of Darien, which is where lumber and 00:19:21.829 --> 00:19:24.349 crops collected after being produced in Georgia. 00:19:24.430 --> 00:19:27.470 So it was like this huge timber port. And so 00:19:27.470 --> 00:19:29.609 obviously there was tons of action happening 00:19:29.609 --> 00:19:31.349 around this area, which is why they had to have 00:19:31.349 --> 00:19:38.289 a lighthouse in the first place. Sugar. That 00:19:38.289 --> 00:19:41.970 wasn't a joke. It's just when you say things 00:19:41.970 --> 00:19:45.630 so randomly, like I never mentioned sugar. You 00:19:45.630 --> 00:19:47.769 know, someone out there, I say sugar and they're 00:19:47.769 --> 00:19:52.009 like, yeah, Georgia. He's right, actually. Honey, 00:19:52.109 --> 00:19:53.970 did you know? It's just kind of my type of humor, 00:19:54.029 --> 00:19:56.289 I think. I think you're funny without meaning 00:19:56.289 --> 00:20:00.069 to because it's me specifically. Maybe somebody 00:20:00.069 --> 00:20:01.430 else wouldn't think that's funny, but I think 00:20:01.430 --> 00:20:10.869 it's hilarious. You're so funny. Thank you. Okay. 00:20:10.869 --> 00:20:14.210 1850. So we're going 30 years later. I don't 00:20:14.210 --> 00:20:18.829 know. There's not much in that time period. The 00:20:18.829 --> 00:20:20.990 day mark of the light was changed from white 00:20:20.990 --> 00:20:23.529 to red and white stripe to help distinguish it 00:20:23.529 --> 00:20:25.630 in the daytime. So we're just making our day 00:20:25.630 --> 00:20:29.109 mark a little more noticeable, a little more 00:20:29.109 --> 00:20:32.990 easier to spot. So I have a picture of when that 00:20:32.990 --> 00:20:36.569 was changed. We love... Bold stripes. It's a 00:20:36.569 --> 00:20:41.930 big, thick lighthouse. It's nice. It's got a 00:20:41.930 --> 00:20:45.690 pleasing profile. The ratio of lantern room to 00:20:45.690 --> 00:20:49.410 the width of the lantern room to the width of 00:20:49.410 --> 00:20:51.990 the lighthouse is really nice. I just like it. 00:20:52.690 --> 00:20:55.450 Four years after they changed the day mark, so 00:20:55.450 --> 00:21:00.509 1854, the light was given a fourth order Fresnel 00:21:00.509 --> 00:21:04.400 lens, so we're kicking. lamps and now we're going 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:08.240 to Fresnel lens and produced a bright white flash 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:12.539 every 40 seconds added to its fixed white characteristic 00:21:12.539 --> 00:21:14.859 which basically just means that they added a 00:21:14.859 --> 00:21:19.880 bullseye lens on yeah normal lens so kind of 00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:22.900 cute kind of fun special we find out later that 00:21:22.900 --> 00:21:26.119 this characteristic continues to be special as 00:21:26.119 --> 00:21:31.279 it ages A year after that, in 1855, the board 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:34.960 requested $1 ,500 for a beacon at the southern 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:37.460 tip of the island. Not a lighthouse, a beacon. 00:21:38.299 --> 00:21:41.279 Which would form a range light with Sapolo Island 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:45.019 Lighthouse to help mariners find... The proper 00:21:45.019 --> 00:21:48.400 channel for entering the sound, which I'll go 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:51.859 back. And a range light is where you align two. 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:54.279 Yes. Versus a sector. So that you know you're 00:21:54.279 --> 00:21:56.880 going in the correct direction by aligning with 00:21:56.880 --> 00:21:59.619 two lighthouses. A sector is like multicolor. 00:21:59.819 --> 00:22:03.119 Yes. Yeah. That's like if you lose sight of the 00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:04.579 light. If you're in the red, you're in the red. 00:22:04.660 --> 00:22:08.759 Yeah. So I went back to the maps. So you can 00:22:08.759 --> 00:22:11.660 see. all the channels that they're talking about, 00:22:11.700 --> 00:22:14.079 that there's some correct ones down in the bottom 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:17.500 left corner. That's the Port of Darien. And so 00:22:17.500 --> 00:22:21.420 apparently they want you to travel through one 00:22:21.420 --> 00:22:24.400 of these channels that's past the lighthouse. 00:22:24.619 --> 00:22:29.539 Or, I mean, I'm sure that this down here, Altamaha 00:22:29.539 --> 00:22:32.980 River, that was probably a good entrance. But 00:22:32.980 --> 00:22:35.140 something about this area, they're like, enter 00:22:35.140 --> 00:22:38.519 here and follow the lights. So they added that 00:22:38.519 --> 00:22:43.779 beacon in 1856 with a fourth order lens. So they 00:22:43.779 --> 00:22:46.480 kind of matched each other in power. Mariners 00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:49.180 were told to, quote, bring the beacon in range 00:22:49.180 --> 00:22:51.740 with the main light and run for them until the 00:22:51.740 --> 00:22:54.019 outer or east beacon on Wolf Island was at a 00:22:54.019 --> 00:22:57.200 specific bearing. Wolf Island is just south of 00:22:57.200 --> 00:23:01.579 Sapelo Island. We're going back to Spalding. 00:23:01.660 --> 00:23:03.319 We're going to talk about him a little bit more. 00:23:03.400 --> 00:23:06.720 He was a slaver. What else? He passed away in 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:10.660 1851 on the way back from fighting against the 00:23:10.660 --> 00:23:14.299 abolition of slavery at a convention. He was 00:23:14.299 --> 00:23:18.200 murdered. It didn't specify, but he was at one 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:21.819 of his other houses. I'm sure it would have said 00:23:21.819 --> 00:23:24.900 murdered if he were killed by somebody. I think 00:23:24.900 --> 00:23:27.660 he was old and just passed away. I'm pretty sure 00:23:27.660 --> 00:23:35.619 he was born in 1773. Oh my. He was old. Yeah, 00:23:35.619 --> 00:23:38.240 so he was like 80 -something. For those times, 00:23:38.359 --> 00:23:43.900 yeah. His son continued his operation in the 00:23:43.900 --> 00:23:46.660 South End House, which was the plantation mansion 00:23:46.660 --> 00:23:50.759 that he built on the island in 1802 when he first 00:23:50.759 --> 00:23:54.180 moved there. And it was like, it took like eight 00:23:54.180 --> 00:23:55.920 years to complete, and of course, it was all 00:23:55.920 --> 00:24:02.309 built by slaves. Just whatever. His son was chased 00:24:02.309 --> 00:24:04.769 from the house by the Union Army, which took 00:24:04.769 --> 00:24:08.750 over the island in 1862 during the Civil War. 00:24:08.890 --> 00:24:11.630 So he kind of planted his butt in there until 00:24:11.630 --> 00:24:15.630 he was forced to leave the house. Yeah. And the 00:24:15.630 --> 00:24:17.990 mansion was just absolutely trashed, left in 00:24:17.990 --> 00:24:20.430 ruins until it was purchased and restored decades 00:24:20.430 --> 00:24:23.740 later. I have some pictures of it. Now it's known 00:24:23.740 --> 00:24:26.339 usually as the Reynolds House. There was several 00:24:26.339 --> 00:24:28.480 names for it, of course, as it was owned over 00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:31.660 time. And now it's owned by the state of Georgia. 00:24:31.819 --> 00:24:35.740 You can have parties there or something. So this 00:24:35.740 --> 00:24:38.119 was one long photo, and I separated it into two 00:24:38.119 --> 00:24:42.559 so you can see it better. So this was the architect's 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:45.000 drawing of what they wanted it to look like. 00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:48.700 So it ended up pretty much like that. And then 00:24:48.700 --> 00:24:51.579 below is the ruins that it was left in after 00:24:51.579 --> 00:24:56.079 the Civil War. Not so good. Lots of growths and 00:24:56.079 --> 00:24:59.279 whatnot. Yeah. Lots of stuff. And then the one 00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:02.079 on top of that is when it was purchased the first 00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:06.680 time. I can't remember by who. I want to say 00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:10.599 it was a car guy. I can't remember. Jay Leno? 00:25:10.759 --> 00:25:15.140 No. But then it was purchased another time by 00:25:15.140 --> 00:25:17.619 a guy with the last name Reynolds. Okay. And 00:25:17.619 --> 00:25:20.319 he made it into what you see today, like outdoor 00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:22.900 pool, indoor pool. There's a bowling alley, all 00:25:22.900 --> 00:25:26.059 kinds of stuff. So interesting. So was this, 00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:30.259 would you say that it was a plantation? Oh, yeah. 00:25:31.180 --> 00:25:32.759 Plantation house? Yes. Because they had their 00:25:32.759 --> 00:25:35.359 own crops and they had slaves. Okay. Yeah. 400 00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:37.680 of them, just on the island. And it's owned by 00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:40.059 the state today. And what's the function today? 00:25:40.569 --> 00:25:43.309 Just parties. It's an event space. So interesting. 00:25:44.150 --> 00:25:47.869 The South has some interesting, it's not usually 00:25:47.869 --> 00:25:51.730 adjacent to lighthouse culture or lighthouse 00:25:51.730 --> 00:25:55.670 stories, these plantations. I saw a couple months 00:25:55.670 --> 00:25:58.569 ago at this point, one was burned intentionally. 00:25:58.990 --> 00:26:01.750 Oh, yes. Do you know that story? I don't know 00:26:01.750 --> 00:26:04.750 what happened. Somebody said it had something 00:26:04.750 --> 00:26:10.210 to do with people got out of prison. Like escaped 00:26:10.210 --> 00:26:13.069 prison or something at the, at least the two 00:26:13.069 --> 00:26:15.710 events coincided. So sure. Like there was speculation 00:26:15.710 --> 00:26:18.410 that they did it, but it seemed intentional, 00:26:18.470 --> 00:26:21.970 like a planned, there was fire crews waiting, 00:26:22.049 --> 00:26:23.970 but not putting it out type of thing. Interesting. 00:26:24.009 --> 00:26:26.809 Like a, like planned demolition by fire. Oh, 00:26:26.849 --> 00:26:29.049 that, that was my understanding. Okay. But, and 00:26:29.049 --> 00:26:31.730 there's a different cultural conversation going 00:26:31.730 --> 00:26:35.630 on about what about these civil war and antebellum 00:26:35.630 --> 00:26:38.319 and slavery historical. figures and places and 00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:40.940 statues should we get rid of those we're getting 00:26:40.940 --> 00:26:43.880 rid of some of them oh like people are arguing 00:26:43.880 --> 00:26:45.859 that we should not should not have statues of 00:26:45.859 --> 00:26:48.599 people houses and stuff yeah well or statues 00:26:48.599 --> 00:26:52.019 of you know southern generals that were in the 00:26:52.019 --> 00:26:53.900 confederate army oh yeah even though they were 00:26:53.900 --> 00:26:57.039 americans in a way they lost the war and slavery 00:26:57.039 --> 00:26:59.559 is bad of course yeah and so we should get rid 00:26:59.559 --> 00:27:01.440 of those things other people argue that we should 00:27:01.440 --> 00:27:04.670 keep them Because of recognition of... You have 00:27:04.670 --> 00:27:06.589 to... The whole point of history is that you 00:27:06.589 --> 00:27:09.089 learn from past mistakes. It's challenging. And 00:27:09.089 --> 00:27:11.309 past... Yeah, you don't want to get rid of things 00:27:11.309 --> 00:27:13.009 just because they're bad. I mean, you can go 00:27:13.009 --> 00:27:17.069 in... You can go in... People... It's on their 00:27:17.069 --> 00:27:19.630 bucket list to go and see Auschwitz, you know? 00:27:19.809 --> 00:27:21.609 Auschwitz, yeah. Auschwitz. It's very difficult 00:27:21.609 --> 00:27:24.230 to pronounce. Oh. I don't know if I can, is what 00:27:24.230 --> 00:27:26.289 I'm saying. Auschwitz. Auschwitz is what I think, 00:27:26.289 --> 00:27:30.069 but I... I went to Dachau, which is another one 00:27:30.069 --> 00:27:34.029 in Germany, outside of Munich. But like nobody's 00:27:34.029 --> 00:27:36.089 going there. It's not a happy day. It's good. 00:27:36.170 --> 00:27:38.910 No, it's, it's to learn from history. The point 00:27:38.910 --> 00:27:42.210 is that you feel terrible. So yes, this does 00:27:42.210 --> 00:27:46.289 have a really great coffee shop. Oh, at the visitor 00:27:46.289 --> 00:27:50.269 center. That's interesting. Anyways, I'm, I've 00:27:50.269 --> 00:27:52.690 dragged us off topic. The point is, it's interesting 00:27:52.690 --> 00:27:55.690 to me that this is one of those Southern potentially 00:27:55.690 --> 00:28:00.230 divisive places and it's owned by the state. 00:28:01.369 --> 00:28:04.609 And it's not, it's not a museum. Well, it would 00:28:04.609 --> 00:28:07.009 be nice if it was a museum, but Reynolds, the 00:28:07.009 --> 00:28:11.369 guy who had it first, he, I wish I had taken 00:28:11.369 --> 00:28:13.789 more notes, but see, I was going on a deep dive. 00:28:14.210 --> 00:28:16.210 There's deep dives all over the place. Yeah. 00:28:16.210 --> 00:28:18.190 And then I was like, no, no, this is about the 00:28:18.190 --> 00:28:20.609 lighthouse. So I got to stop. But he did a bunch 00:28:20.609 --> 00:28:24.390 of like cultural donations and like, he didn't 00:28:24.390 --> 00:28:25.670 just like buy the house and be like, I'm going 00:28:25.670 --> 00:28:28.130 to make this like. Sure. The cool party house. 00:28:28.130 --> 00:28:31.089 This is my sick pad. Yeah. He was doing it for 00:28:31.089 --> 00:28:34.250 historical reasons and like all tons of donating 00:28:34.250 --> 00:28:38.869 and a lot of the island now is like environmental 00:28:38.869 --> 00:28:42.549 research. I saw a wildlife preserve out there 00:28:42.549 --> 00:28:46.069 it looks like. Yeah. So in the latest state of 00:28:46.069 --> 00:28:49.450 the house is there still a lighthouse? Yes. The 00:28:49.450 --> 00:28:52.130 house is unrelated to the lighthouse. It's just 00:28:52.130 --> 00:28:55.750 that it was built by Spalding and he wanted to 00:28:56.490 --> 00:28:58.869 have a lighthouse for the naval base. But the 00:28:58.869 --> 00:29:00.970 lighthouse would have been produced regardless 00:29:00.970 --> 00:29:03.170 of if he was there, except for that he sold the 00:29:03.170 --> 00:29:07.789 land for his little token $1. So anyway, I got 00:29:07.789 --> 00:29:10.089 way deep into this house. I tried not to, and 00:29:10.089 --> 00:29:13.670 I still did. The Confederates had taken the Fresnelans 00:29:13.670 --> 00:29:17.170 out of the lighthouse during World War I. Sorry. 00:29:18.430 --> 00:29:23.450 It's basically... I'm cutting that out. During 00:29:23.450 --> 00:29:30.940 the Civil War. And by the end, the light station 00:29:30.940 --> 00:29:33.039 was very badly damaged. The lighthouse board 00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:38.859 did like a big assessment and everything. And 00:29:38.859 --> 00:29:41.880 they were just like severely damaged by the rebels. 00:29:42.259 --> 00:29:46.200 Like, yeah, the rebels. Rebels scum. After almost 00:29:46.200 --> 00:29:49.759 a complete rebuild of the dwelling and adding 00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:51.440 a new lantern room to the lighthouse, it was 00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:55.450 relit in 1868. and the range light was rebuilt 00:29:55.450 --> 00:29:59.069 in wood on a 100 -foot tramway. So as there were 00:29:59.069 --> 00:30:02.890 changes in the channel, they could move the beacon 00:30:02.890 --> 00:30:04.930 light slightly. I was like, I would have never 00:30:04.930 --> 00:30:07.529 considered that that would be something you have 00:30:07.529 --> 00:30:10.589 to worry about. But I guess shifting sands, it's 00:30:10.589 --> 00:30:13.089 a tale as old as time. I said that last time, 00:30:13.170 --> 00:30:17.980 like four times. Tale as old as time. You tell 00:30:17.980 --> 00:30:20.140 whenever I'm editing that I get annoyed by stuff. 00:30:20.220 --> 00:30:21.960 I'm like, why did I say that so many times? We 00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:23.599 do though. We get locked. I do it all the time. 00:30:23.640 --> 00:30:25.400 Get locked into saying the same thing over and 00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:27.359 over again. It's like a word you pick up and 00:30:27.359 --> 00:30:29.900 then all of a sudden it just comes to you and 00:30:29.900 --> 00:30:32.279 we're not, we're not reading a script or anything. 00:30:32.339 --> 00:30:34.759 So it just happens. I've been saying buddy a 00:30:34.759 --> 00:30:38.160 lot lately. Really? Bud, buddy. Oh, I haven't 00:30:38.160 --> 00:30:40.859 noticed. Don't know. Like a lot of work, which, 00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:44.700 you know, peers of mine. So not like, not like 00:30:44.700 --> 00:30:47.710 some random guy. Yeah. But buddy. It's like, 00:30:47.730 --> 00:30:50.170 those are fighting words. Can I help you, pal? 00:30:52.430 --> 00:30:56.130 Okay, whoa. Let me get back on track. Yes, on 00:30:56.130 --> 00:30:58.430 the tramway, and this wooden beacon was replaced 00:30:58.430 --> 00:31:03.650 with an iron one in 1877. 1877, which is what 00:31:03.650 --> 00:31:08.069 we have today. Let me have a picture. Cool. It's 00:31:08.069 --> 00:31:10.329 just a cute little, it's just a square room on 00:31:10.329 --> 00:31:12.869 top of stilts. That's basically it. Looks nice. 00:31:13.150 --> 00:31:16.240 Yeah, and it has a light. Very specifically coming 00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:19.400 out of one small rectangular window. So when 00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:22.359 you see this light, you're on track. It's nice. 00:31:22.460 --> 00:31:25.500 It looks like a really good hunting blind. Yeah, 00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:27.019 that's kind of what I thought too when I saw 00:31:27.019 --> 00:31:30.299 it. It looked more like a stand, like a hunting. 00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:35.099 But those structural supports make it seem very 00:31:35.099 --> 00:31:41.099 staunch. Solid. Ready for a storm. After the 00:31:41.099 --> 00:31:43.279 war, after our Civil War, several freed slaves 00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:46.420 returned to Sapelo Island, creating a settlement 00:31:46.420 --> 00:31:49.900 on 434 acres of land, which was deeded to them 00:31:49.900 --> 00:31:53.000 from the Spaldings, which I was trying to remember 00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:56.019 from history, if like slave owners were forced 00:31:56.019 --> 00:32:00.900 to give land, give money to slaves, because what 00:32:00.900 --> 00:32:02.759 would you do? I don't think so. Because what 00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:04.799 would you do if you just kind of like, they're 00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:06.619 like, here, you're free. It'd be really scary. 00:32:06.940 --> 00:32:11.569 Well, I think from my very short, in the history 00:32:11.569 --> 00:32:14.369 of slavery in the United States. I think that 00:32:14.369 --> 00:32:18.990 what was the period called right after slavery? 00:32:20.690 --> 00:32:23.710 Emancipation? Antebellum. Oh, oh. The point is 00:32:23.710 --> 00:32:25.589 there's a lot of problems because just because 00:32:25.589 --> 00:32:28.269 slaves were free didn't change all of those awful 00:32:28.269 --> 00:32:30.769 systems that were installed over the years. And 00:32:30.769 --> 00:32:33.910 all of a sudden being free to go anywhere, like 00:32:33.910 --> 00:32:35.829 where are you going to live? What are you going 00:32:35.829 --> 00:32:38.289 to do? You have no money. You have no developed 00:32:38.289 --> 00:32:40.799 job. You don't have it like, oh, here's my resume. 00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:42.539 Here's all the stuff I've been doing. Maybe you 00:32:42.539 --> 00:32:44.819 don't even speak English. Well, you certainly 00:32:44.819 --> 00:32:48.259 wouldn't have an education. Yeah. A basic education 00:32:48.259 --> 00:32:52.519 didn't exist for them as far as I know. Anyways, 00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:55.819 it was very difficult. 400 acres is a good amount 00:32:55.819 --> 00:33:00.960 of land depending on what it is, how many people, 00:33:01.259 --> 00:33:04.119 what resources they have. But that is an interesting 00:33:04.119 --> 00:33:06.720 use of that land, part of the story. Yeah, and 00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:09.180 the settlement is called Hog Hammock, named after 00:33:09.180 --> 00:33:12.380 Samson Hog, who cared for the hogs on the plantation. 00:33:14.079 --> 00:33:21.200 Hog Hammock. So, yeah, Hog Hammock is... What 00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:24.539 do you want? What do you want from me? Keep going. 00:33:24.619 --> 00:33:28.500 I'm just saying history. It's the last on the 00:33:28.500 --> 00:33:30.799 island. I'm not continuing until you're done 00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:34.809 laughing. I didn't even think that was a funny 00:33:34.809 --> 00:33:43.029 name. One second. You just come looking out the 00:33:43.029 --> 00:33:45.990 window trying to get it together. All right. 00:33:46.269 --> 00:33:49.150 This settlement is the last on the island that 00:33:49.150 --> 00:33:52.390 preserves the Gullah culture and language, which 00:33:52.390 --> 00:33:55.210 is a rich mixture of African, European, and American 00:33:55.210 --> 00:33:58.450 customs and dialects. Cool. Never heard of it. 00:33:58.700 --> 00:34:01.559 Yeah, most of the people still living on this 00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:03.759 island or in this settlement, I think there's 00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:07.359 70, last I checked, are descendants from the 00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:11.099 freed slaves on Sapelo Island. Oh, cool. So it's 00:34:11.099 --> 00:34:13.239 pretty neat. You can go and it's part of the 00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:16.739 tours you can take now as it stops in Hog Hammock. 00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:30.170 Nice. No! So after this, going back to the lighthouse, 00:34:30.329 --> 00:34:32.869 focus, focus. We had a string of seven keepers, 00:34:32.869 --> 00:34:34.929 all of which did not stick around for longer 00:34:34.929 --> 00:34:36.889 than a year. Oh, wow. I don't know what was going 00:34:36.889 --> 00:34:39.389 on. That's crazy. But James Cromley came in and 00:34:39.389 --> 00:34:42.110 brought some stability to the position, serving 00:34:42.110 --> 00:34:44.349 for 16 years until he died. So he didn't even 00:34:44.349 --> 00:34:46.690 retire. He just passed away on the job. Like 00:34:46.690 --> 00:34:49.190 a soldier. But that's because he was hired at 00:34:49.190 --> 00:34:52.210 74 years old. Oh, my gosh. So he actually lived 00:34:52.210 --> 00:34:57.679 to 90. So he lived at 90? That's crazy. Like 00:34:57.679 --> 00:35:00.699 how does this happen? 74, you start this job 00:35:00.699 --> 00:35:03.039 and you stick around for 16 years. That's a wild 00:35:03.039 --> 00:35:06.099 boy. And the whole time he was supplementing 00:35:06.099 --> 00:35:11.039 his pay as a keeper, making shoes for crews of 00:35:11.039 --> 00:35:13.800 the vessels that would dock nearby. Awesome. 00:35:13.940 --> 00:35:16.699 I know. I wish I had tried to look up pictures 00:35:16.699 --> 00:35:19.920 of like Cromley shoes or something. I don't think 00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:22.679 the shoemaking passed down in history, you know, 00:35:22.679 --> 00:35:25.500 in his family, but like light keeping surely 00:35:25.500 --> 00:35:28.320 did because. For the rest of this lighthouse's 00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:31.780 history, the keepers were always Cromleys. Huh. 00:35:31.960 --> 00:35:34.119 Yeah. They just stuck around. How many of them? 00:35:34.280 --> 00:35:38.000 Three. Okay. That's impressive. I know. Three 00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:41.239 generations of Cromleys serving at this lighthouse 00:35:41.239 --> 00:35:45.480 until it was discontinued. Oh, I noted four of 00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:47.699 his sons served as assistant keepers and three 00:35:47.699 --> 00:35:52.000 moved on to be head keeper. Kind of fun. In 1898, 00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:54.780 we are still not in the 1900s. It's crazy. I 00:35:54.780 --> 00:35:58.610 love it. 1898. 1898. Burns and McDonald was founded. 00:35:58.969 --> 00:36:01.070 Oh, yeah, you're right. Shout out. Our only sponsor. 00:36:01.070 --> 00:36:03.710 And it was also the date of the largest hurricane 00:36:03.710 --> 00:36:09.670 to ever hit Georgia. Oh, no. It landed near Sappalo, 00:36:09.769 --> 00:36:12.690 and the keeper's dwelling was submerged halfway 00:36:12.690 --> 00:36:14.789 up the second floor, so that's kind of crazy. 00:36:14.789 --> 00:36:17.230 Oh, my gosh. Completely gutted it and partially 00:36:17.230 --> 00:36:20.510 washed it away, so just, like, unhabitable. The 00:36:20.510 --> 00:36:22.250 keeper and his family survived by taking refuge 00:36:22.250 --> 00:36:26.599 in the tower, as per... Lots of past stories 00:36:26.599 --> 00:36:29.579 of hurricanes and lighthouses. Even in modern 00:36:29.579 --> 00:36:32.460 day, if you can't make it out before a hurricane, 00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:34.000 go to the light tower. Yeah, you actually would 00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:37.139 have a pretty good odds surviving in a lighthouse. 00:36:37.380 --> 00:36:38.980 That's what they're built for. You just keep 00:36:38.980 --> 00:36:44.340 on going up. You know, as the water rises. I 00:36:44.340 --> 00:36:48.260 just said the range light is discontinued. That's 00:36:48.260 --> 00:36:51.429 all I had on the hurricane. Yeah, at the same 00:36:51.429 --> 00:36:53.869 time, I don't know if it was washed away. No, 00:36:53.909 --> 00:36:55.269 no, because we still have the same one today. 00:36:55.449 --> 00:36:57.289 So they just turned it off. They're like, we're 00:36:57.289 --> 00:37:00.070 done with this. I think at this time, there was 00:37:00.070 --> 00:37:01.989 still a lot of shipping. There was like a dip 00:37:01.989 --> 00:37:06.369 in shipping because I wish I had taken more notes, 00:37:06.409 --> 00:37:08.869 but I didn't know how far away I was going from 00:37:08.869 --> 00:37:11.690 the main focus. And so I just didn't take a lot 00:37:11.690 --> 00:37:14.250 of notes. But there was some kind of shift in 00:37:14.250 --> 00:37:17.250 what was being shipped out. of the port of Darien. 00:37:17.849 --> 00:37:21.710 Different product? Yeah, some big change around 00:37:21.710 --> 00:37:23.710 this time. Some shortage or some excess or something. 00:37:23.829 --> 00:37:26.590 So then they removed the range light. The lighthouse 00:37:26.590 --> 00:37:29.550 board requested $40 ,000 to build a new tower 00:37:29.550 --> 00:37:33.170 and dwelling further inland because erosion started 00:37:33.170 --> 00:37:35.969 happening. Erosion, corrosion. This was right 00:37:35.969 --> 00:37:39.510 after the hurricane, so there was a bunch of 00:37:39.510 --> 00:37:41.070 damage to everything. So they're like, let's 00:37:41.070 --> 00:37:44.090 just build a new tower and a new dwelling. 1902, 00:37:44.309 --> 00:37:48.389 Congress awarded the money and a 52 -foot deep 00:37:48.389 --> 00:37:51.090 test bore was drilled and deemed satisfactory. 00:37:51.409 --> 00:37:54.090 So something about this 52 feet underground was 00:37:54.090 --> 00:37:59.809 like, yep, that's good. Precise. 52 feet. That's 00:37:59.809 --> 00:38:02.250 ridiculous, isn't it? That's a long way. Okay. 00:38:02.389 --> 00:38:05.389 So I figured that was kind of crazy. They wanted 00:38:05.389 --> 00:38:07.530 to see what was down there and they got all the 00:38:07.530 --> 00:38:10.030 layers and they're like, yep, slap the hood. 00:38:11.949 --> 00:38:14.230 But in November, the beach was washed away so 00:38:14.230 --> 00:38:16.409 much that the current light station was undermined. 00:38:16.829 --> 00:38:21.369 Oh, they were wrong. No, no. I mean, the current 00:38:21.369 --> 00:38:24.429 one, where it is on the beach, was... Oh, oh, 00:38:24.449 --> 00:38:26.130 oh. Yeah, this is why they were building a new 00:38:26.130 --> 00:38:29.269 one. So the dwelling at that point was deemed 00:38:29.269 --> 00:38:32.230 uninhabitable, so they demoed it and used the 00:38:32.230 --> 00:38:36.679 bricks to prop underneath. The lighthouse. And 00:38:36.679 --> 00:38:40.039 20 feet around the existing tower and then covered 00:38:40.039 --> 00:38:43.300 it in cement. So there was like this hump keeping 00:38:43.300 --> 00:38:47.179 it from sinking. Yeah, a little big foot to keep 00:38:47.179 --> 00:38:50.940 it from sinking too far. 1904, contracts were 00:38:50.940 --> 00:38:53.820 awarded and the new lighthouse was built. So 00:38:53.820 --> 00:38:57.519 I have a picture. The year that Dodge was founded. 00:38:58.099 --> 00:39:02.519 Oh my gosh. That's interesting. It's so crazy. 00:39:03.130 --> 00:39:05.510 That that year is something you remember because 00:39:05.510 --> 00:39:10.829 it's car related. It's fun. Dodge. Car? Yep. 00:39:10.989 --> 00:39:15.090 Okay. I thought you were like, just to specify, 00:39:15.190 --> 00:39:18.090 I said Dodge. I'm like, yeah. The Dodge Brothers. 00:39:19.050 --> 00:39:21.570 I think they were inspired by Ford and the Model 00:39:21.570 --> 00:39:24.469 T's success. Oh. Decided to make their own car 00:39:24.469 --> 00:39:29.309 company. Do a little like competitiveness. Anyways. 00:39:29.610 --> 00:39:34.059 Very cool. They built a 125 -foot steel perimeter 00:39:34.059 --> 00:39:37.159 lighthouse with two wooden keeper's dwellings 00:39:37.159 --> 00:39:39.480 on either side, built a few hundred feet north 00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:42.880 of the existing light. Gorgeous. Yeah. Absolutely 00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:45.380 gorgeous. It is nice. We like skeleton lighthouses. 00:39:45.380 --> 00:39:49.800 Yeah, how would you describe these keeper's dwellings? 00:39:50.119 --> 00:39:53.039 Like houses on Cape Cod, or not Cape Cod. They're 00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:55.219 not like this. Outer Banks. Like where they're 00:39:55.219 --> 00:39:57.920 on stilts. They're on stilts, but then it's also 00:39:57.920 --> 00:40:05.880 like... Too much roof is what I'm thinking. That's 00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:09.000 the vibe. Okay. I'm getting big hats, big hats. 00:40:09.699 --> 00:40:12.780 It was first lit in September, 1905 with a third 00:40:12.780 --> 00:40:15.500 order lens. So we went a little bit up in power 00:40:15.500 --> 00:40:19.280 and had six flashes every 30 seconds with two 00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:21.900 seconds between each flash. So it was like really 00:40:21.900 --> 00:40:25.099 quick, quick ish flashes and then like space 00:40:25.099 --> 00:40:27.539 in between. So kind of special. I haven't seen 00:40:27.539 --> 00:40:29.869 it anywhere else. Yeah, it's cool. Skeleton Tower 00:40:29.869 --> 00:40:32.710 served next to the darkened original tower until 00:40:32.710 --> 00:40:40.849 1933 when a decline in shipper shipping. I'm 00:40:40.849 --> 00:40:44.150 going down. We're having a tough time. Decline 00:40:44.150 --> 00:40:48.070 in shipping rendered it unnecessary. The short 00:40:48.070 --> 00:40:51.610 tower. No, the short tower was dark since this 00:40:51.610 --> 00:40:53.670 tower was. Oh, oh. Yeah, and then they were like, 00:40:53.769 --> 00:40:56.309 we're done. But here's a picture of the close 00:40:56.309 --> 00:40:58.679 proximity of the two towers. That's cool. Yeah, 00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:01.000 the stripey one stayed there. They didn't demo 00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:04.860 it. And it didn't fall over. Apparently, the 00:41:04.860 --> 00:41:09.340 propping with the bricks was enough to keep the 00:41:09.340 --> 00:41:11.820 lighthouse from going down. But you can see how 00:41:11.820 --> 00:41:13.880 close it is to the water's edge. They did a good 00:41:13.880 --> 00:41:16.699 job deciding to move it back. But apparently, 00:41:16.860 --> 00:41:20.860 it was not necessary. It's crazy. So at that 00:41:20.860 --> 00:41:25.699 point, they dismantled the steel tower. and shipped 00:41:25.699 --> 00:41:29.119 it to South Fox Island, which I believe is Lake 00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:32.699 Michigan or like somewhere in Michigan, where 00:41:32.699 --> 00:41:35.480 it was lit again and still is to this day. Hey, 00:41:35.579 --> 00:41:38.260 cool. So it just moved over. And over the following 00:41:38.260 --> 00:41:40.400 decades, the island was split up by purchases 00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:43.360 of private owners, the state of Georgia, some 00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:45.780 environmental agencies for research, like all 00:41:45.780 --> 00:41:48.659 that just, you know, sold off to little pieces. 00:41:50.030 --> 00:41:53.429 1998, the original lighthouse, oil house, and 00:41:53.429 --> 00:41:55.809 cistern were carefully restored for almost half 00:41:55.809 --> 00:41:58.409 a million dollars and were relit after almost 00:41:58.409 --> 00:42:02.369 a century in September of 1998. So we got like 00:42:02.369 --> 00:42:06.489 new owners and they decided to do a deep restoration. 00:42:06.809 --> 00:42:10.250 I pulled up a picture of before and after. So 00:42:10.250 --> 00:42:12.769 at that point, all the paint had been worn away. 00:42:12.849 --> 00:42:17.949 We had lots of rusting, no doors. The oil house 00:42:17.949 --> 00:42:21.170 had no roof, just brick. Like, really. Not good. 00:42:21.469 --> 00:42:24.349 Just, I'm surprised it only took half a million 00:42:24.349 --> 00:42:26.550 dollars to restore this thing. That is really 00:42:26.550 --> 00:42:28.730 surprising. Surprised by that. And the stairs 00:42:28.730 --> 00:42:31.829 were wooden in the first, like, normally we see. 00:42:31.829 --> 00:42:33.730 The structure must have been an outstanding shape. 00:42:33.889 --> 00:42:37.750 Yeah. When we see spiral stairs, we usually see 00:42:37.750 --> 00:42:40.750 them iron, and they were wood. I just think that's 00:42:40.750 --> 00:42:43.690 special. I've never seen wood stairs in any lighthouse, 00:42:43.949 --> 00:42:46.219 I don't think. Because you would think. they'd 00:42:46.219 --> 00:42:48.119 be in danger. The picture I pulled up was before 00:42:48.119 --> 00:42:50.840 they painted them. Now they're painted. I wish 00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:52.059 they would have just stained them. They look 00:42:52.059 --> 00:42:55.119 so good. Pretty cool. Nice. Good for them. I 00:42:55.119 --> 00:42:58.380 know. It's doing everybody else a favor by doing 00:42:58.380 --> 00:43:00.920 that. So is this a society that has management 00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:05.400 of the lighthouse? I don't know. Or is there 00:43:05.400 --> 00:43:07.280 public access, I guess, is the real question? 00:43:07.940 --> 00:43:12.469 Only if you purchase a tour. Because it's on 00:43:12.469 --> 00:43:17.769 private land. Sure. So who owns Sapello Island 00:43:17.769 --> 00:43:22.610 Lighthouse? I'm pretty sure it's the state of 00:43:22.610 --> 00:43:25.989 Georgia. Managed by the Georgia Department of 00:43:25.989 --> 00:43:30.210 Natural Resources. Cool. Oh, approximately 97 00:43:30.210 --> 00:43:33.590 % of Sapello Island is owned by the state of 00:43:33.590 --> 00:43:36.090 Georgia and managed by the DNR. Okay, so the 00:43:36.090 --> 00:43:40.530 state of Georgia owns it. Yeah. Cool beans. Hog 00:43:40.530 --> 00:43:45.639 Hammock. Oh, my gosh. 2002, an observation tower 00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:49.699 was built on the 1905 Tower Foundation, so they 00:43:49.699 --> 00:43:53.360 just did a little reusing there. I have a picture 00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:56.280 of that, too. It's nothing pretty. It's just 00:43:56.280 --> 00:43:59.420 for functionality. Yeah, it's not as... And if 00:43:59.420 --> 00:44:02.039 you can climb the lighthouse and see from there, 00:44:02.179 --> 00:44:04.440 then why would you need an observation tower? 00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:12.400 That's the question. 2011. Archaeologists. Archaeologists. 00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:18.199 Suggest. I don't even know what we're referencing 00:44:18.199 --> 00:44:22.119 anymore. What is that? Graham Hancock, I believe. 00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:27.280 Oh, I wouldn't know. From the Netflix show. Let's 00:44:27.280 --> 00:44:29.380 see if I can think of it later. Okay. Yeah, it's. 00:44:29.460 --> 00:44:33.400 Oh, what is it? Yeah, I won't be able to remember. 00:44:33.800 --> 00:44:36.119 Anyway, they unearthed the foundation of the 00:44:36.119 --> 00:44:38.880 original Keeper's Cottage, which at that point. 00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:41.900 And since history, the location hadn't been known. 00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:45.280 Because whenever it was demoed, it just was covered 00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:48.960 up by sand. And they never had an actual marker 00:44:48.960 --> 00:44:51.260 for where it had been in the first place. So 00:44:51.260 --> 00:44:53.980 as time went on, nobody actually knew where the 00:44:53.980 --> 00:44:56.400 house had once been. Besides looking at photos. 00:44:56.440 --> 00:44:58.260 And even then, it's like, you can't really tell 00:44:58.260 --> 00:45:01.760 exactly where it is. So it was kind of a big 00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:04.940 deal. Finding it was under a bunch of sand. And 00:45:04.940 --> 00:45:06.820 for some reason, they just realized. So they 00:45:06.820 --> 00:45:10.159 found the footings? The foundation. Yeah. Cool. 00:45:10.539 --> 00:45:14.639 Yeah. Cool. They're like, here lies the house. 00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:17.420 That is a pretty photo. Isn't that nice? Nice 00:45:17.420 --> 00:45:19.820 little picture of our current lighthouse with 00:45:19.820 --> 00:45:23.599 the beautiful coastline of Georgia, which I didn't 00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:25.559 realize wasn't a beach, but it is sand. You can 00:45:25.559 --> 00:45:29.179 tell it's sand. Nowadays, you can take a ferry 00:45:29.179 --> 00:45:31.699 to the island to see all that it has to offer 00:45:31.699 --> 00:45:35.260 because Sapelo Island's not just the lighthouse. 00:45:35.420 --> 00:45:37.599 Like, you know, a lot of cases. The lighthouse 00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:39.280 is the only thing you can see on an island because 00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:41.960 it's tiny. Yeah. But this one's big enough and 00:45:41.960 --> 00:45:44.280 has so much rich history that you get to learn 00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:48.500 about. So you can go and see, they have like, 00:45:48.639 --> 00:45:52.980 you go to Hog Hammock and you go to like the 00:45:52.980 --> 00:45:55.380 nature reserve and there's just all kinds of 00:45:55.380 --> 00:45:57.780 fun things you can see. Be a nice visit. I know. 00:45:58.159 --> 00:45:59.760 There's a, I can't remember what it's called. 00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:01.559 I think there's several of them, but there's 00:46:01.559 --> 00:46:05.960 one I found an island in Georgia. Okay. Or South 00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:08.679 Carolina. I have to take it back now. I think 00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:10.739 it's South Carolina. Oh. But it's an island. 00:46:10.820 --> 00:46:13.119 It's a private island. It's all the neighborhoods 00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:15.679 and golf courses. And it's a golf resort. That's 00:46:15.679 --> 00:46:17.900 the whole point is it's a resort for like family. 00:46:18.320 --> 00:46:21.380 It's like all the houses are like Airbnbs. Every 00:46:21.380 --> 00:46:24.219 single house. There's only golf carts. And then 00:46:24.219 --> 00:46:26.139 there's like three golf courses, four golf courses. 00:46:26.440 --> 00:46:29.940 So it's like a vacation type of thing. But all 00:46:29.940 --> 00:46:31.920 that, it was just a beautiful island with the 00:46:31.920 --> 00:46:33.719 same type of coastline. That's what I was thinking. 00:46:33.980 --> 00:46:37.659 This would make a good golf course. Yeah. What 00:46:37.659 --> 00:46:41.880 is it? Lynx? Lynx style. Yeah. And the best part 00:46:41.880 --> 00:46:44.300 is that Sapelo Island Lighthouse is the second 00:46:44.300 --> 00:46:47.619 oldest brick lighthouse in the United States. 00:46:47.860 --> 00:46:50.119 Really? Yes. Because if you think about it, it's 00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:52.699 1819. Yeah, yeah. I think it's 1820. 18. It was 00:46:52.699 --> 00:46:56.880 first lit, so pretty old. Do we know the oldest 00:46:56.880 --> 00:47:02.559 offhand? No. I can research. Oldest brick lighthouse 00:47:02.559 --> 00:47:09.719 in the United States. Answer is Sandy Hook Lighthouse. 00:47:09.960 --> 00:47:12.219 Oh, yeah. We know Sandy Hook. Yeah. We were so 00:47:12.219 --> 00:47:17.820 close to that. Wait. I'm thinking Sandy Neck. 00:47:18.159 --> 00:47:22.639 That's Cape Cod, which we didn't go see. Yep. 00:47:23.420 --> 00:47:27.960 Unfortunate. Drove right by. Silly geese. We 00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:29.900 were seeing too many other lighthouses. Anyway, 00:47:29.980 --> 00:47:31.960 I read that you can only get to the lighthouse 00:47:31.960 --> 00:47:35.539 by ferry, but I also saw that Reynolds back in 00:47:35.539 --> 00:47:39.699 the 50s built a vehicle slash pedestrian walkway 00:47:39.699 --> 00:47:42.260 to the island just to make it easier to get back 00:47:42.260 --> 00:47:45.099 and forth. And so I'm wondering if that's gone 00:47:45.099 --> 00:47:48.179 now or if it's only if you live there. I bet 00:47:48.179 --> 00:47:50.880 you it's gone. Okay. It was probably sketchy. 00:47:51.159 --> 00:47:55.199 In the 1950s? Yeah. It's gone. Okay. Oh. There's 00:47:55.199 --> 00:47:58.820 no way. That's too bad. I'd be shocked. Yeah. 00:47:58.860 --> 00:48:01.159 I guess if the ferry is the only way to climb 00:48:01.159 --> 00:48:02.820 the lighthouse, it's probably that there's not 00:48:02.820 --> 00:48:05.420 a lot of access out there. So to climb, you have 00:48:05.420 --> 00:48:08.840 to book a Sappalo Island tour online, which takes 00:48:08.840 --> 00:48:10.539 you on a ferry and shows you all parts of the 00:48:10.539 --> 00:48:12.920 island. Lots of cool history. Stop at Hog Hammock, 00:48:12.920 --> 00:48:14.820 which they said there's only one general store 00:48:14.820 --> 00:48:17.760 so that you go in and you just get like a snack. 00:48:18.539 --> 00:48:21.139 Yeah. I'm sure there's souvenirs. Yeah. Oh, I 00:48:21.139 --> 00:48:24.780 bet so. And a lighthouse climb. which is the 00:48:24.780 --> 00:48:26.860 only way that you get to. That sounds nice. Yeah, 00:48:26.880 --> 00:48:30.219 they really, really zeroed in on the market there. 00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:33.059 The only way you can climb is if you book this 00:48:33.059 --> 00:48:35.800 whole day tour. I'm like, oh, no, it kind of 00:48:35.800 --> 00:48:40.739 makes it hard. That is Sappalo Island Lighthouse. 00:48:41.119 --> 00:48:43.739 Great. Thank you. That was really nice. Episode 00:48:43.739 --> 00:48:46.460 83. Lots of cool history. I like it whenever 00:48:46.460 --> 00:48:48.699 we get to focus more on other things, but also 00:48:48.699 --> 00:48:50.199 have something to do with the lighthouse. Yeah, 00:48:50.260 --> 00:48:51.900 I'm sorry. I've wandered a little bit. No, no, 00:48:51.900 --> 00:48:54.199 it's good. I'm real tired and all that. It's 00:48:54.199 --> 00:48:58.059 a fun part of our podcast is that we wander and 00:48:58.059 --> 00:49:04.579 not all who wander are lost. True. Anything else 00:49:04.579 --> 00:49:06.360 you want to add? I really don't have anything. 00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:14.019 What was that show? Oh, no. Oh, Netflix show. 00:49:14.780 --> 00:49:19.599 Graham. Ancient Civilizations. Really? Yeah. 00:49:19.659 --> 00:49:24.449 Is there another one? I did just kind of... I 00:49:24.449 --> 00:49:27.889 don't think that's right. No, no, it's got to 00:49:27.889 --> 00:49:32.809 be. I think there's two, potentially. No, it's 00:49:32.809 --> 00:49:35.949 Ancient Apocalypse. Ancient Apocalypse. Let's 00:49:35.949 --> 00:49:38.650 go, memory. I got Ancient. I couldn't get it, 00:49:38.690 --> 00:49:40.409 but I knew it was not that one. You know what 00:49:40.409 --> 00:49:44.070 happened is I put Netflix show, and then I produced 00:49:44.070 --> 00:49:46.530 Ancient from my head. So I typed Ancient, and 00:49:46.530 --> 00:49:49.250 it said Civilizations. So then I was like, that's 00:49:49.250 --> 00:49:51.530 it. So we're talking about this show. We watched 00:49:51.530 --> 00:49:54.420 it. We just... this character gets more and more 00:49:54.420 --> 00:49:58.440 unbelievable. Well, he's a guy. He's not a character. 00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:02.019 He's apparently been ostracized from the archeological 00:50:02.019 --> 00:50:05.539 community. He disagrees with many theories of 00:50:05.539 --> 00:50:08.760 how things were. Yeah, and he has a chip on his 00:50:08.760 --> 00:50:11.920 shoulder about it. And an accent, which for us 00:50:11.920 --> 00:50:14.400 simple folk is really fun. Anytime he mentions 00:50:14.400 --> 00:50:17.340 what's widely accepted, he says, archaeologists 00:50:17.340 --> 00:50:20.460 suggest. Yeah, he never gives them any like, 00:50:20.940 --> 00:50:24.360 They have founded, they say, they've proven. 00:50:25.179 --> 00:50:29.599 Archaeologists suggest 17 million years is long 00:50:29.599 --> 00:50:32.119 enough to erode this hill. How could they possibly 00:50:32.119 --> 00:50:37.179 have said that? However, recent research. Yet 00:50:37.179 --> 00:50:39.300 his claims get more and more outlandish as he 00:50:39.300 --> 00:50:41.360 goes along. In the first few episodes, we're 00:50:41.360 --> 00:50:44.500 like, this is cool. We were in. Yeah, of course. 00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:46.820 The last episode, it took us so long to watch 00:50:46.820 --> 00:50:48.940 it because we just knew it was going to be. like 00:50:48.940 --> 00:50:51.780 the epitome of the downfall that we had seen. 00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:54.280 This is just our own personal opinion. It's all 00:50:54.280 --> 00:50:56.739 opinion, yeah. Entertainment only. Absolutely 00:50:56.739 --> 00:50:59.340 watch it. Chime in in the comments. Yeah, let 00:50:59.340 --> 00:51:03.579 us know. If you're Graham Hancock. Let us know. 00:51:03.619 --> 00:51:05.880 Thumbs up if you liked Ancient Apocalypse. We're 00:51:05.880 --> 00:51:09.599 going to be like, lighthouse enthusiast. Okay, 00:51:12.059 --> 00:51:13.860 well that's all I got. That was really nice. 00:51:13.940 --> 00:51:15.980 I appreciate it. your work thanks and i look 00:51:15.980 --> 00:51:18.400 forward to the next episode which is mine right 00:51:18.400 --> 00:51:21.619 no i have one more okay yours yeah episode 84 00:51:21.619 --> 00:51:24.619 will be mine and then you'll be coming in 85 00:51:24.619 --> 00:51:27.320 very exciting you'll get to use that history 00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:30.539 that you prepped a while ago that's right so 00:51:30.539 --> 00:51:33.019 yeah everyone check out our website thelighthouselowdown 00:51:33.019 --> 00:51:36.260 .com where you can leave us a review or you can 00:51:36.260 --> 00:51:38.900 check out our youtube videos or just listen to 00:51:38.900 --> 00:51:41.260 our podcast we love all of our listeners and 00:51:41.260 --> 00:51:43.440 we thank you for being here And we hope that 00:51:43.440 --> 00:51:46.980 you catch us next time on The Lighthouse. Go 00:51:46.980 --> 00:51:47.179 down.