Historic liqhthouse sheds new light for community.Late last year, the National Park Service's Federal Lands to Parks program facilitated the transfer, at no cost, of a 0.23-acre parcel containing an abandoned Coast Guard lighthouse, to the town of Dauphin Dauphin, town, Canada Dauphin (dô`fĭn), town (1991 pop. 8,453), SW Man., Canada, on the Vermilion River. It is the retail and distribution center for an agricultural, lumbering, and fishing area. Island, Ala. The Sand Island Lighthouse is located on the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east four miles south of the entrance to Mobile Bay. Constructed in 1872, the lighthouse is listed in the National Register of Historic Places This article is about the U.S. Register. For the National Register of Historic Places in Canada see Canadian Register of Historic Places. The National Register of Historic Places as Alabama's tallest lighthouse (131 feet). Stabilization and restoration of the historic lighthouse will be accomplished with assistance from the Alabama Lighthouse Association. Public access to Sand Island and interpretive tours of the inside of the lighthouse are planned. NPS NPS National Park Service NPS Naval Postgraduate School NPS Net Promoter Score (customer management) NPS Non-Point Source pollution NPS Native Plant Society NPS Norfolk Public Schools (Virginia) Federal Lands to Parks staff negotiated the transfer. For more information, please contact Bill Huie, Federal Lands to Parks Program Manager, at bill_huie@nps.gov or (404) 562-3175. |
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