|
March 4, 1776 – The Continental Congress resolves to disable Sandy Hook Lighthouse, New Jersey, to prevent it from being utilized by the enemy during the American Revolution.
March 16, 1818 – The first Macquarie Lighthouse near the entrance to the harbor of Sydney, Australia, is completed.
March 1840 – St. Catherine’s Lighthouse on the Isle of Wight in England is lighted for the first time.
March 10, 1863 – New Canal Light, Louisiana, is extinguished by order of General Sherman, commanding the defenses of New Orleans during the Civil War.
March 2, 1867 – The U.S. Congress authorizes $75,000 a new lighthouse at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
March 29, 1867 – The 1857 lighthouse at Timbalier Bay, Lousisiana, is destroyed by a hurricane.
March 1, 1877 – Stepping Stones Light in Long Island Sound, New York, is first lighted.
March 1880 – An argument between Keeper Frederick Osborne and Assistant Keeper John Stevens of St. Simons Light in Georgia ends with Osborne dead from a gunshot wound.
March 23, 1891 – The old Point Loma Lighthouse in San Diego, California, is extinguished, and a new light, closer to the water at the tip of the point, goes into service.
March 1, 1902 – The first staffed light stations in Alaska are established at Southeast Five Finger Island and Sentinel Island.
March 4, 1925 – An act of Congress, for the first time, provides for disability retirement in the Lighthouse Service.
March 15, 1976 – The keeper’s house at Faulkner’s Island Light Station in Connecticut is destroyed by an accidental fire.
March 29, 1984 – A blizzard topples the 1818 Great Point Lighthouse at the northern tip of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.
March 1, 2003 - Administrative control of the Coast Guard is transferred to the newly created Department of Homeland Security from the Department of Transportation.
This story appeared in the
March 2007 edition of Lighthouse Digest Magazine. The print edition contains more stories than our internet edition, and each story generally contains more photographs - often many more - in the print edition. For subscription information about the print edition, click here.
All contents copyright © 1995-2024 by Lighthouse Digest®, Inc. No story, photograph, or any other item on this website may be reprinted or reproduced without the express permission of Lighthouse Digest. For contact information, click here.
| 