North
Carolina's
Ocracoke
Lighthouse
The Ocracoke Lighthouse is, of course, on Ocracoke, an island off the coast of North Carolina, in Hyde County. The present lighthouse standing today was constructed in 1823. The lighthouse, plus the keeper's quarters, cost $11,359.35 to build. The man who built it all was Noah Porter of Massachusetts. The keeper's quarters is a one story, three room, brick building. The land that the lighthouse was built on was bought from a man named Jacob Gaskill for fifty dollars. The Ocracoke Lighthouse is the oldest and the shortest on the Outer Banks. It is the second oldest working lighthouse in the United States. The lighthouse is 65 feet high, but including the latern it is 75 feet high. Its light can reach about 14 miles. The keeper's quarters have been expanded twice to make two living quarters which are used by rangers of the Cape Hatteras National Park.
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The information was found in a historical nonfiction book named "Ocracoke Lighthouse",
written by author Ellen Fulcher Cloud.
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