St George Island Lighthouse collapse

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dbohara@mindspring.com - 27 Jan 2006 19:42 GMT

I just learned that sometime last year the lighthouse on St George
Island Florida that had been leaning and then had been stabilized has
collapsed into the surf.

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Larry - 28 Jan 2006 15:07 GMT

> I just learned that sometime last year the lighthouse on St George
> Island Florida that had been leaning and then had been stabilized has
> collapsed into the surf.

http://216.239.51.104/search?
q=cache:N7PxK_mAMXkJ:www.neilbranch.com/light.htm+St+George+Island+Lighthou
se+collapse&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3

Sorry about the wordwrap. Just go to Google and put in:

St George Island Lighthouse collapse

and there are lots of websites....

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Frank Boettcher - 28 Jan 2006 15:31 GMT

>I just learned that sometime last year the lighthouse on St George
>Island Florida that had been leaning and then had been stabilized has
>collapsed into the surf.

I was on the island that day. Spent the week in Mexico Beach and my
wife and I drove over to eat lunch with her aunt who has a house on
the bay side of the island.

I don't think they ever got it stabilized. I think they were trying
to collect enough donated money to do that when it collapsed.
too bad.

Well at least the Biloxi light house is still standing and withstood
both Camille and Katrina. No longer an aid to navigation, but
certainly a beacon of hope.

Frank.

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Joe - 28 Jan 2006 18:31 GMT

Here is our local Steel beacon of hope
http://www.uh.edu/engines/bolivarlighthousesmall.jpg

The prism glass, and burner are in Galveston. I wish they would restore
her, but Bolivar has access problems for tourist to bother visiting.

www.uh.edu/ engines/epi1523.htm

Oh, me father was the keeper of the Eddystone Light,
And he slept with a mermaid one fine night.
And from this union there came three,
A porpoise and a porgy -- and the other was me.

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St George Island Lighthouse collapse