Cape St. George Lighthouse, Cape St. George Island, Florida #3
by Dawna Moore Photography
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Cape St. George Lighthouse, Cape St. George Island, Florida #3
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Dawna Moore Photography
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Photograph - Nature And Travel Photography
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Before the beach could build back up following Hurricane Andrew, Hurricane Opal struck in 1995. The resulting tidal surge swept around the lighthouse, forcing it off its piling foundation. As the lighthouse settled into the sand, the circular staircase was torn from the interior walls, and the tower developed a pronounced lean. Efforts followed to bring the lighthouse upright during the following years, however, on October 21, 2005, the years of stress on the leaning tower apparently became too much, as the lighthouse toppled into the gulf at 11:45 a.m. The St. George Lighthouse Association quickly launched an effort to salvage the remains of the lighthouse. Roughly six months after the tower toppled, excavation equipment was used to recover the pieces of the lighthouse and load them on a barge so they could be transported to Eastpoint, where a local radio station had provided a storage area. Volunteers subsequently spent numerous hours cleaning the recovered bricks so they could eventually be used to reconstruct the lighthouse further inland. Plans for the new tower were based on original drawings obtained from the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and ground was broken for the project on October 22, 2007. Sixteen square concrete pilings were driven almost forty feet into the ground to provide support for the tower, and atop these a reinforced cement foundation was poured on November 30. he exterior of the tower was then stuccoed and a heart-pine staircase installed inside the tower before it first opened for visitors in November 2008.
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February 5th, 2018
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