Keep Brevard Beautiful partnered with us at the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse for the first ever Adopt-A-Landmark program. If you’re not yet a member or brick holder, please consider becoming a member or buying a brick before our next quarterly tour so you can take advantage of this special FREE event, only open to those individuals. Over 70 people took advantage of this free opportunity on a beautiful day at the lighthouse. We had a great time on Saturday, April 15th with our first quarterly Members and Brick Holders tour of 2023. This is definitely worth a special trip to see a Fresnel lens up close. It’s just under 3-feet tall and likely weighs over 500 lbs. The 4th Order lens now in the museum was made in America circa 1905 by the Macbeth-Evans Glass Company. Later in 1893-1894 when the iron lighthouse was dismantled and moved a mile inland due to beach erosion concerns, a skeletal tower was built and used a 4th Order lens until the move was completed. After the war, a 4th Order Fresnel lens was installed in the brick lighthouse from 1965-1868, when the iron lighthouse was built and began using a 1st Order Fresnel lens. During the Civil War, old Winslow Lewis Lamp was removed when all lighthouses in the South were ordered to go dark. This type of lens is significant to the lighthouse as it was used twice in its history. We finally received a 4th Order Fresnel lens on loan from the U.S. Our 4th Order Fresnel Lens on loan from the Coast Guard is now on display in th e Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Museum! Many thanks for all their hard work and a great product that helps us share this national resource. The University of South Florida Center for Digital Heritage & Geospatial Information, just completed a virtual tour of the Cape Canaveral Light Station. The Cape Canaveral Light discussion is in the 2 nd half. This is an hour long podcast the first half of which is a discussion about Patos Island Light in Washington State. So make plans now to come visit us!ĬAPE CANAVERAL LIGHTHOUSE VIRTUAL TOUR – created by the University of South Florida Center for Digital Heritage & Geospatial InformationĬlick Here for a short Spectrum News Florida on a Tankful segment about the lighthouse.Ĭlick Here for a 12 minute video tour of the lighthouse presented by our Historian, Barbara Moser, produced by the Space Launch Delta 45 Public Affairs Office.Ĭlick here for a 321 Liftoff Podcast about visiting the lighthouse.Ĭlick here for a US Lighthouse Society podcast for the lighthouse. Please see our Visit page for tour information. Unlike most other military installations, a retired military ID will not gain you access to CCSFS. Active duty military with CAC cards may come onto the station to visit the lighthouse, but cannot escort non-badged visitors without prior approval of SLD 45. Members of the public can only visit by taking a tour, which must be booked at least two days prior, to process through Space Force Security. We are open for scheduled tours, but since we are located on an active military installation, you cannot drive your own vehicle onto the facility. Hangar C will also be open during these hours. Open House for CCSFS badged personnel occurs every Wednesday from 10:00 – 1:00. Visits to the lighthouse, museum, and gift shop are available via prescheduled tours, only. Situated amidst America’s Premier Gateway to Space, the lighthouse is owned by the United States Space Force and maintained as an active aid to navigation by the United States Coast Guard. 2017.The Cape Canaveral Lighthouse has stood on the Cape for over 150 years. "Bernard Joseph Bretherton." Geocities, Accessed 18 Nov. 2017 "History of the North Head Lighthouse." Keepers of the North Head Lighthouse, /history. "A home on the headlands." Mail Tribune, 31 Oct. Mabel resigned in 1907 and moved to Portland. Lighthouse keepers had a difficult life, often working very long hours. The light functioned from dusk to dawn, limiting cleaning and polishing to the daylight hours. As the only woman assigned there, she assisted with the maintenance of the light and lens, considered the most important job of keepers. Mabel moved to North Head Lighthouse in 1905. Mabel, widowed with three children under 10, became the assistant lighthouse keeper at Cape Blanco in Port Orford. In those days, the lighthouse service often offered employment to widows of keepers. The jobs allowed him to continue his bird studies. They moved to Newport, Ore., in 1894, where he became assistant keeper at the Yaquina Beach Lighthouse, followed by keeper of the Coquille River Lighthouse in Bandon. They had married in 1892 in Sitka, Alaska, and had three children. The first woman lighthouse keeper in Oregon, Mabel Hatch Bretherton, got her first lighthouse job after her husband, Bernard Bretherton, died in 1903.
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