At The Lighthouse

                                                       

I thought I would show you a few last photographs around the lighthouse.  Here is a shot showing the whole lighthouse from top to bottom, with no buildings in the way.  The all white building to the left in the photo is the fire control building - more on that in another post.

And of course lighthouses not only have a light, but they always have a foghorn!  Of course!  No one could explain to me why there are four of them stacked, and then another one that sits by itself to the left

When you get to the room at the top of the lighthouse, that is below the lamp room, there is a doorway that leads to a metal catwalk all around the lighthouse.  I assume that is so that the lighthouse keeper can clean the glass windows of the lamp room.    Visitors can't walk all around but you can come out onto one small section and get a great view of everything around the lighthouse.

This is just one of the rooms in the museum which is located in the Keeper's Quarters.  Haven't they done a beautiful job with this.  There are so many rooms with all kinds of information, it would take a while to see and read everything.  In the glass cace in the center of the room there is a very important tan-colored documet that I have photographed up close, below.   

This is an astounding document written in 1796 by the federal government, authorizing the purchase of the land that the lighthouse is now located on.  If you look closely, you will see that it was signed by George Washington!  Is that stunning, or what!  The purchase agreement states that the cost for the land was $250.  I looked that amount up to see what it's value would be today, and the estimates are from $8,000 to $10,000.  I would have guessed so much more.  Be sure and click on this image because I posted an extra large image so you could examine Washington's signature closely.