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Highland Lighthouse Cape Cod MA

By the 1960s the assistant keeper’s houses and fog horn building had been removed, and Keeper Isaac Small’s original ten acres had shrunk to little more tha...
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By the 1960s the assistant keeper’s houses and fog horn building had been removed, and Keeper Isaac Small’s original ten acres had shrunk to little more than two. In the early 1990s erosion seriously threatened the light. While in 1806, it had stood 510 feet from the cliff, by 1989, that distance had shrunk to 128 feet. In 1996, after $1.5 million had been raised to reposition the lighthouse a safer 453 feet from the cliff’s edge, the 430-ton structure was successfully moved intact on I-beams greased with Ivory soap. International Chimney Corp. of Buffalo, with Expert House Moving of Maryland as a subcontractor, was responsible for the move.
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