Memorial to an 1848 Brick Lighthouse3D ModelNoAI
This brick structure at Cape Canaveral, Florida, is known only from buried brick ruins, a few National Archives photos, historic maps and other meager records. The original tower stood 65 ft. tall, was not high enough to provide adequate light and warning to ships. A taller, iron structure was built next to it in 1868. In 1893 the iron tower began to be disassembled and the brick tower was destroyed with materials to be reused in the reconstruction and moving of the iron tower to a new (present-day) location that was better protected inland from beach erosion. The new site was operational by 1894. What remained of the foundation footing for the 1868 iron tower and the dispersed brick ruins of the c.1847-48 tower are all that remain at the old lightstations. Our archaeological work re-discovered the ruins and laser scanning of the site and this monument was performed. This nearby memorial was made by an Eagle Scout from a local scout troop in 2002 using scavenged bricks from the original lighthouse.
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