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Author Topic: A bit of early American lighthouse history  (Read 408 times)
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« on: February 02, 2009, 12:16:44 am »
Georgia has a lot of digital copies of historical material on line, and while browsing some of it, I found:

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                           An Act
For raising a Fund by an Impost on shipping
to defray the expence of keeping the Light House
on Tybee Island in repair and for building a House
there for the use of the pilot.
Georgia   assented to the 7th of March 1755

This is just the introductory page - there are two more pages accessible from it:
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« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2009, 05:05:11 pm »
Yeah, I love checking out stuff like that.

This place:

http://www.lighthouseantiques.net/

Has alot of old lighthouse, revenue service and early CG stuff ya can browse online. Pretty pricey, but cool to look at-JRC
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