tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559692.post6483591714647578331..comments2024-03-06T11:07:23.753-05:00Comments on Ocracoke Island Journal: Cape Hatteras LighthousePhiliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01572532603071469799noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559692.post-88660655740669776412016-05-06T04:42:59.099-04:002016-05-06T04:42:59.099-04:00Please see the webpage from the government archive...Please see the webpage from the government archives that refers to obtaining the land for erecting a lighthouse on Cape Hatteras at this URL: http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-16-02-0038Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559692.post-44417517878646435862014-02-08T04:04:23.453-05:002014-02-08T04:04:23.453-05:00Perhaps the American Lighthouse Federation can ill...Perhaps the American Lighthouse Federation can illuminate us on this subject and don't forget to mark your calendar on August 7th National hug your Lighthouse DayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559692.post-45275177218426194242014-02-08T03:53:15.210-05:002014-02-08T03:53:15.210-05:00The Hatteras Guide sounds as if an intern for a s...The Hatteras Guide sounds as if an intern for a summer penned this ditty. and thanks to the decade of the internet Anything goes (undocumented or footnoted)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559692.post-54131171032224953902014-02-07T09:33:40.124-05:002014-02-07T09:33:40.124-05:00This urban legend has been perpetuated for more th...This urban legend has been perpetuated for more than 50 years that the first lighthouse on Cape Hatteras had been the idea of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, ever since he had been a teenager. The story goes that Hamilton conceived the lighthouse following a near-death experience when his ship, Thunderbolt, caught fire and nearly foundered off Hatteras. Hamilton scholars today, including Yale historian, Joanne Freeman, author of Hamilton Writings, have found no evidence of the Hatteras accident. The myth seems to have originated with Ben Dixon MacNeil who began his book, The Hatterasman, by admitting that he was not a historian and his book was not a history, yet successive writers have perpetuated his fantasy as fact. Hamilton did not initiate the idea for a lighthouse at the Cape, but without question, he paid for it.<br /><br />The 1803 lighthouse was so poor that one mariner recommended tearing it down because, as he wrote, "we're more likely to run aground looking for it."<br /><br />Kevin Duffus<br />author, "The Lost Light"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com