. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Cape Lookout Lighthouse guided them safely in. Instead, they headed out to sea. Alexander Hamilton, too, felt the power of Hatteras' angry fists when at age 17, the passenger ship he sailed on caught fire and lost control on the dangerous shoals. Hamilton never forgot his trip on the Thunder- bolt. As a high-ranking member of George Washington's cabinet, he helped form the Lighthouse Service in 1789 and initiate construction of the first Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. The original lighthouse, com- pleted in 180
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Cape Lookout Lighthouse guided them safely in. Instead, they headed out to sea. Alexander Hamilton, too, felt the power of Hatteras' angry fists when at age 17, the passenger ship he sailed on caught fire and lost control on the dangerous shoals. Hamilton never forgot his trip on the Thunder- bolt. As a high-ranking member of George Washington's cabinet, he helped form the Lighthouse Service in 1789 and initiate construction of the first Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. The original lighthouse, com- pleted in 1802, was an octagonal tower 90 feet tall made of sandstone. The lighthouse keeper, one of the faithful men who maintained the beacons, kept nine 200-gallon cisterns full of whale oil to fuel the Hatteras Light. With their beams, lighthouses guarded two capes, Cape Fear and Cape Hatteras, as well as ports at the Cape Fear River and Ocracoke. But Cape Lookout and Beaufort re- mained dark. Early maps listed Cape Lookout as "Promontorium tremendum," Scott D. Taylor. Bald Head Lighthouse which sailors translated later as "horrible ; Shoals 10 miles offshore fueled the fear. But mariners came to know the quiet harbor behind AS AMERICA FLOURISHED, TRADE, TRAVEL AND THE SAFETY OF BOTH BECAME INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT TO GROWTH OF THE NEW NATION. THE LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE FINALLY SAW THE NEED TO BUILD BEACONS WHERE NAVIGATIONAL HAZARDS, NOT JUST COMMERCE, DEMANDED THEM. Department of Conservation & Development. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original UNC Sea Grant College Program. [Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program]
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