Buoys: Signposts of The

Volume XXXIV • Issue i • October, 2009

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From the 2 Executive Director 3 Events Calendar Regional History 4 Buoys at the Inlet Feature Article Buoys: 6 Signposts of the Sea Object of the 10 Quarter Education 11 News 12 Volunteer News Thank You & 13 Wish List Lighthouses of the World Odawara Chochin Lighthouse Gift Shop 15 Features

The Quarterly Newsletter of the Ponce de Leon Inlet LighthousePonce de Leon Preservation Inlet Light Station Association, • October 2009 Inc. From the Executive Director The Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse Preservation Association is dedicated to n August 7, the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse, the anniversary of this historic act by providing the preservation and dissemination of the O in honor of National Lighthouse Day, visitors guided tours of the museum, fun maritime and social history of the Ponce celebrated the creation of the United States interactive workshops, and a Canaveral Lens de Leon Inlet Light Station. Lighthouse Service. It was 220 years ago on Maintenance demonstration. We are thankful August 7, 1789, that the first Congress of the for the generosity of the many volunteers who 2009 Board of Trustees United States, in an effort to protect the sailors made this day possible. Robyn Hurd and cargo of the growing nation, created the We are also pleased to announce the President Tami Lewis first public works act and formed the United opening of the Minor Aids to Navigation Vice President States Lighthouse Service. The following is a Exhibit. Located on the gallery deck of the Budd Solano portion of the original language from Section Ayres Davies lens exhibit building, this exciting 2nd Vice President 1 of the Act for the Establishment and Support exhibit addresses the evolution of minor aids to Bob Riggio Treasurer of Lighthouses, Beacons, Buoys, and Public navigation and their role in maritime history. In Tony Girolami Piers: addition to interpretive text panels, the exhibit Secretary “Be it enacted by the Senate and House includes numerous pieces drawn from the Wilda Hampton Trustee Emerita of Representatives of the United States of museum’s extensive collection of historic and Cheryl Cunningham America in Congress assembled, That all modern navigational aids. Items on display Earl Davis expenses which shall accrue from and after include post lanterns, ship lanterns, and hand Gladys Davis the fifteenth day of August one thousand lanterns, a wide assortment of river and buoy Tara Lamb seven hundred and eighty-nine, in the lights, and several examples of modern-day Barbara LaVelle necessary support, maintenance and repairs beacons currently used in lighthouses and Bill Merrell of all lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public buoys. We invite all members to visit us in the piers erected, placed, or sunk before the near future to see this exciting new exhibit. Advisory Committee passing of this act, at the entrance of, or The Preservation Association has Ginger Bayer within any bay, inlet, harbor, or port of the continued its ongoing effort to restore the Judy DiCarlo Edson Graham United States, for rendering the navigation historic keepers’ dwellings through the Judy Huggins thereof easy and safe, shall be defrayed out summer months. Suffering from significant Diane LaMontagne of the Treasury of the United States” mortar deterioration, the east wall of the First Ellen Pagliarulo The origin of National Lighthouse Day Assistant Keeper’s was fully restored in June. Alan Redinger began when Senator John H. Chafee (Rhode Old crumbling mortar was removed, fractured The Light Station is published quarterly by the Ponce de Leon Island) sponsored a joint resolution that was bricks were replaced or refaced, and new Inlet Lighthouse Preservation Association, Inc. introduced to Congress on April 28, 1988 mortar installed. The restored east wall is but Subscription is a benefit of membership in the Association. The designating the day of August 7, 1989 as one part of the Association’s overall restoration Light Station welcomes letters and comments from our readers. “National Lighthouse Day.” The summary of plan for the historic structure. Future work will the resolution stated, “Designates August 7, include re-pointing the south wall, restoring Member: American Association of Museums 1989, as National Lighthouse Day and calls interior plaster work, and repairing the American Assoc. for State and Local History for lighthouse grounds, where feasible, to be dwelling’s damaged fireplaces. Florida Association of Museums Florida Lighthouse Association open to the public.” The resolution passed The Association would like to thank all its Florida Trust for Historic Preservation through the Senate on July 26th and through members for their continued support. National Trust Forum the House (sponsored by Representative U.S. Lighthouse Society Respectfully, Port Orange & South Daytona William J. Hughes, New Jersey) on October Chamber of Commerce 21st. President Ronald Reagan signed the Bill Daytona Beach/Halifax Area Chamber of Commerce into public law on November 5, 1988. Daytona Beach Area Attractions Association The Ponce Inlet Lighthouse celebrated ExecutiveEd Gunnlaugsson Director

Museum Staff Maintenance Upcoming Meetings: Ed Gunnlaugsson Michael Silvey Gift Shop Oct. 14, 2009 Budget Finance/Endowment Executive Director Maintenance Manager Connie Bach Wednesday Fund Committee Meetings Mike Bennett Lonnie Arnold Gift Shop Manager Director of Operations Al Barunas Ann Caneer David Belcher Taylor Van Auken Oct. 19, 2009 Board of Trustees and Executive Director Emerita Mike Bowen Assistant Gift Shop Manager Monday Annual Membership Meeting Donna Doan Ellen Henry Jim Foley Curator Sam Hawthorne Eileen Gallagher Nov. 16, 2009 Board of Trustees Meeting Bob Callister Bob McLean Fran Greene Monday Program Manager Ed Milano Valair Mitchell Tom Zane Angelo Vigorito Janet McSharry Dec. 21, 2009 Board of Trustees Meeting Registrar Jeanine Teasley Monday Bethel Blais L.H. Beaconette: Nelly Bill Teasley HR/Bookkeeping Board of Trustees and membership meetings are held in the Gift Shop Conference Room. Members are encouraged to attend.

2 October 2009 • Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station Keeper Listing Events Calendar Bill VanHouten Lighthouse Events October–December 2009 Corporate Warwick, NY Lampists 2nd Assistant (Fri) Canaveral Lens Demonstration Oct 2 Meet the old-time lighthouse keepers in the Lens Exhibit Building. Berlin and Denys, Inc. 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm New Smyrna Beach, FL Keepers Learn about the Cape Canaveral 1st Order Fresnel Lens and the Bennett Brothers Construction maintenance that had to be done every week. Demonstration Boondocks Restaurant John, Liston, & Virginia Wilbur by the Sea, FL Daytona Beach, FL is included with the price of regular admission. No advance Richard, Diane, & Sarah Boynton reservations are required. Bright House Networks Exeter, NH Orlando, FL Kristine & John Bradley Brochure Displays, Inc. South Orange, NJ Oct 15–18 Biketoberfest Daytona Beach, FL Andrew, Heide, Celia, & Andy Carbone Examine and discuss historic artifacts, listen to an old time Crystal Lynnfield, MA (Thu–Sun) Radio from the top of the Lighthouse, and chat with the Keeper Brown & Brown, Inc. Kelly Crumley daily 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm in his office. All activities are included with the price of regular Daytona Beach, FL Long Grove, IL admission. No advance reservations are required. Robert & Mary Darge Caring Cleaners New Hudson, MI Daytona Beach, FL Carolyn Day Ponce Inlet Resident Darkhorse Design, Inc. Ponce Inlet, FL Oct 18–24 DeLand & Longwood, FL; Boston, MA Dr. G. Scott & Kristi Drumheller Appreciation Week Daytona Beach Ponce Inlet, FL (Sun–Sat) The Ponce Inlet Lighthouse will open to all Ponce Inlet residents Frederick & Shirley Eckersen free of charge from October 18th through the 24th in appreciation News Journal Alexandria, VA Daytona Beach, FL Dennis & Zackary Engel of their continued support. Participate in behind the scenes tours, Owatonna, MN visit the Lantern Room, and enjoy family-oriented activities. Down the Hatch, Inc. Dr. C.W. & Gail C. Fain Ponce Inlet, FL Holly Hill, FL Inlet Harbor, Inc. Tammy Gentry Nov 12 Homeschool Day Ponce Inlet, FL Ponce Inlet, FL Attend educational workshops specifically designed for Art & Barbara Giles (Thu) homeschoolers. Special online pricing and reservations will be Daytona Beach, FL Racing’s North Turn 10:00 am – 4:00 pm available starting October 6, 2009. Contact Program Manager Ponce Inlet, FL Cliff & Kim Greene Minnetonka, MN Bob Callister by phone at 386-761-1821 ext. 18 or via email at Raymond James Laurel Grotzinger [email protected] for more details and to be added to & Associates Inc. Kalamazoo, MI the homeschool distribution list. Ponce Inlet, FL Inlet Harbor Realty Robyn, Mike, & Dusty Hurd Ponce Inlet, FL Thanksgiving Gifts Principal Al, Paula, Michael, & Emily Jenkins Nov 27 Enjoy family-oriented activities, live demonstrations, and kids’ Keepers Daytona Beach, FL (Fri) crafts. All activities are included with the price of regular Dr. Herbert & Ruth Kerman admission. No advance reservations are required. CasaGrande – L. Keith Daytona Beach, FL 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Daytona Beach Shores, FL Steven Kover Silver Spring, MD Tony Girolami Salvatore La Greca Early New Year’s Celebration Ponce Inlet, FL Daytona Beach Shores, FL Dec 29 Enjoy family-oriented activities, live demonstrations, and kids’ Louise Nippert Bob & Diane LaMontagne crafts. All activities are included with the price of regular Ponce Inlet, FL (Tue) Cincinnati, OH admission. No advance reservations are required. Jacquelyn Law 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Alan & Mary Ann Redinger Oak Lawn, IL Ponce Inlet, FL Tami & Lester Lewis Ponce Inlet, FL Donna Lough 1st Assistant Depew, NY 2009 Summer & Fall Lighthouse Hours Peggie & Victor E. McClellan Keepers Ponce Inlet, FL Harvey & Connie Bach John McGowan Normal Hours of Operation Ponce Inlet, FL Rockaway Park, NY Bahama House Ward & Terry Mead September 8, 2009– Open daily from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Daytona Beach, FL Ormond Beach, FL May 30, 2010 (last admission at 5:00 p.m.) Riverside Bank Charles, Michelle, Joey, Austin, & Sue Pesce John Cameron Special Hours of Operation Port Orange, FL November 26, 2009 Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday Daytona Beach, FL Philip A. Rhodes Cheryl, Jim, & Shamus Ponce Inlet, FL November 27–28, 2009 Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend Extended Hours Cunningham Robert, Margie, Robert, & Tony Riggio Open 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. (last adm. 6:00 p.m.) Ponce Inlet, FL Ponce Inlet, FL December 24, 2009 Early Close for Holiday Bob & Jan Shaw Joe & Judy DiCarlo Ponce Inlet, FL Open 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. (last adm. 3:00 p.m.) Ponce Inlet, FL Robert & Mary Ruth Trump December 25, 2009 Closed for Holiday Michael, Lauren, & Lisa Elsberry Plymouth, IN December 26–27, 2009 Christmas Holiday Extended Hours Ponce Inlet, FL Lt. Col. William & Sandra Wester Open 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. (last adm. 6:00 p.m.) Janice, Dana, & Alain Fredey Ponce Inlet, FL Oviedo, FL December 28, 2009 Resume normal hours of operation John L. & Patricia Ann La Belle Ponce Inlet, FL Patrick & Debbie Pawling Newsletter Contributing Writers Hamilton, OH Ernest C. & Margaret Rieth Mike Bennett Bob Callister Ed Gunn Ponce Inlet, FL Ellen Henry Tom Zane

Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station • October 2009 3 Regional History Buoys at the Inlet e do not know when the first buoys to help the local pilots. The Inspector made W were placed in Mosquito (Ponce) it clear that no mariner should attempt the Inlet. In a March 11, 1871, letter to the Inlet without the aid of one of these local Chairman of the Light House Board, the pilots. He also remarked that when the canals Inspector for District 6 reported that an iron linking inland waterways from St. Augustine can buoy was located at the Inlet’s entrance, to the Halifax River were completed, there a red spar buoy on the bar, and another red would be far fewer vessels attempting to spar buoy inside the channel. The letter also enter the Inlet. He suggested that some local reported that a local pilot for the Inlet had person or company (such as the fish fertilizer complained about these buoys and asked for factory located at Mosquito Inlet) should be a new channel to be marked. paid to shift the buoys as needed. Later that same month, the District 6 The Sixth District Inspector was once Inspector, while having the channel sounded, again at Mosquito Inlet in June when he encountered the same pilot who claimed he replaced the iron can buoy and added two was now satisfied with the current buoyage. small buoys at the request of the Inlet’s pilot. The Inspector found that the Inlet had The master of a local fishing steamer had shifted and that the south breakers were been given permission to shift the buoys as Fairman Rogers letter breaking on the center of the sandbar near needed. the mouth of the Inlet. He decided to place An interesting letter dated February 11, request of a yachtsman raised the question of another spar buoy at this location. 1885, appears in the Light House Board’s Fairman Rogers’ identity. Who was this man? It must have been difficult to keep records. The Chairman of the Light House Why was he able to capture the attention of buoys at this remote location, as evidenced Board wrote to the Inspector saying: the Light House Board? by a short letter to the Chairman of the “Enclosed there is sent you a copy of a Fairman Rogers was born in 1833 Light House Board on May 6, 1876, reporting letter dated Mosquito Inlet, Fla., 13 February in Philadelphia. He graduated from the on a disaster of March 7th. The schooner ‘85, from Professor Fairman Rogers who is University of Pennsylvania in 1853 and Catherine Thomas of New Bedford had spending the winter in the Gulf in his steam taught civil engineering there for nearly 20 grounded on the bar at Mosquito as a result yacht Magnolia, relative to the buoys needed years. He served in the Union Cavalry in the of there being no buoys to guide the vessel. in Mosquito Inlet. There is also sent you a Civil War, and was a distinguished horseman On May 18, 1883, the District Inspector copy of the tracing which he enclosed and who authored a manual on coaching. His wrote to the Light House Board. He reported it is requested that the several suggestions of expertise in driving a four-in-hand coach that Mosquito Inlet needed to be examined the Professor may receive such attention as was captured by artist Thomas Eakins in a after every gale due to constant shifting of the may be proper under the circumstances.” painting known as A May Morning in the bar and inlet. He reported that the position Rogers’ letter and the accompanying Park. As part of his civil engineering work, of the buoys had remained fixed and that drawing no longer exist in the records, but Rogers was a volunteer officer with the they should remain in their current position the idea of the Board taking so seriously the Army Corps of Engineers and completed an 1862 survey of the Potomac River. As an engineer, a yachtsman, and a man well- known in society, his comments on buoyage of Mosquito Inlet would have indeed caused the men of the Light House Board to take notice and perhaps even comply. Over the years, the problem of keeping up with the shifting sands of Mosquito Inlet continued to plague the Sixth Light House District’s Inspector. The cost of sending a tender to visit the Inlet after every storm was prohibitive, and the small and erratic sums of money granted to local persons to watch over the buoys were not enough to ensure regular care. In May of 1896, the government finally agreed that a Buoy Master for the Inlet should be hired. Roderick Douglass, a local man who also served as the Inlet’s pilot, was selected for the job. Mr. Douglass served as Buoy Master until October 1897 when he was hired on as the Mosquito Inlet Light Station’s First Assistant Keeper. Although making a salary of $540 per year, Roderick Douglass did not remain in his keeper’s position for Early photo of Mosquito Inlet long. A letter dated May 28, 1898 authorized

4 October 2009 • Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station Members of Pacetti family on river shore c. 1900 Ponce Inlet with Lighthouse and Jetties his transfer back to his former position as keeper was given a pay raise to compensate often involved in buoy-related duties. The Mosquito Inlet’s Buoy Master at a pay rate of for the additional duties. buoy log ends in December 1943, coinciding $20 per month. No mention of these new duties is made with the transfer of Edward L. Meyer, the last The number of buoys in and around in the Station’s logbooks until 1924, when civilian Principal Keeper and the first Coast Mosquito Inlet gradually increased over the Principal Keeper Charles Sisson wrote that Guard Officer-in-Charge at the Lighthouse. years from the three known buoys in 1871, on July 17 he sounded the bar and painted Following his departure, buoy activities to 8-10 buoys in the 1920s, and perhaps even the turn buoy. On the 18th, he relieved (took continued to be made by personnel from more by the 1940s. Although a 1904 letter out of service) the turn buoy and painted the Light Station and were recorded in the confirms the addition of two buoys to mark some “spare” (or perhaps spar) buoys. From Station logs. the inside channel, the specific number and then on, sounding the bar, relieving, scraping The Station’s logs from 1945 are missing, types of buoys that have been used in the and painting buoys, repositioning buoys, and at some point during that year, the men inlet over the years remain a mystery. and chasing down buoys that had escaped at the Light Station stopped servicing the The July 26, 1906 death of Buoy Master their moorings appear as regular duties in Ponce Inlet buoys. At the conclusion of Roderick Douglass once again left the the keepers’ logs. In the latter months of World War II, the Light Station was no longer government in need of a reliable man to 1924, a buoy log with more detailed entries used as a barracks, and many duties of the care for the Inlet’s buoyage. Douglass had concerning buoy-related Coast Guard were carried left behind a son, Donald, who was only 14. duties was begun and kept out by the staff at the Coast Despite his lack of education and intelligence until December 1943. The Guard Station rather than by (according to the rather cold appraisal of the buoy log reveals that not only the few men remaining at the District Inspector), young Donald Douglass did the keepers care for the Lighthouse. had the skill and determination to look after aids to navigation, but they Today, the entrance to the buoys on his own for nearly six months also piloted vessels over the Ponce Inlet is marked by after his father’s death. The Inspector bar when required. two lighted bell buoys and arranged for him to receive a payment of $50 Many pages and entries four lighted buoys. Inside for his efforts and claimed that a “competent” are missing from the buoy log, the entrance are unlighted buoy master would soon be hired. so our knowledge of activities 5th class foam buoys, lighted The next document in our archives and changes in buoyage dayboards, and various other concerning buoys at Mosquito Inlet was is incomplete. It is clear, aids to navigation.These buoys written to Principal Keeper John Lindquist however, that the keepers are serviced and maintained in November, 1906. Written by the District spent many hours servicing by the Coast Guard’s Aids to Inspector, the letter stated that Mr. Lindquist buoys, relocating them, Professor Fairman Rogers Navigation Team (or ATON) could appoint “Mr. Pacetti” as Buoy Master chasing the escapees, and which operates out of the for a sum of $15 per month. Exactly which replacing lost chains, sinkers, and shackles. station on the south side of the Inlet. If a boat member of the Pacetti family was chosen to At some point in the late 1930s, a whistle runs aground, the ATON unit will investigate fill this position was not specified. buoy was added just outside the entrance and change the existing buoyage if necessary. By 1916, a man named W. W. Wheldon to Ponce (Mosquito) Inlet. This buoy, The Corps of Engineers inspects and sounds was serving as laborer-in-charge of buoys at whose sound was activated by the motion the Inlet several times annually. Mosquito Inlet. Mr. Wheldon, like many early of the waves, was affectionately known by The Inlet continues to shift and change, 20th century Americans, could not swim. residents as “Moaning Minnie.” even though a jetty system has stabilized this He drowned one day while tending his When the Coast Guard took over all movement to some degree. The Inlet is still buoys. It was a fate not uncommon among aids to navigation in 1938, a new Coast dangerous and waves often reach 20 feet buoy tenders of the time. Shortly after Mr. Guard station opened on the south side of in rough weather. The Coast Guard often Wheldon’s demise, the Lighthouse Service Ponce Inlet. The care of buoys in the Inlet escorts boats attempting to traverse the chose to turn responsibility for Mosquito still fell under the direction of the Officer- inlet in inclement conditions and even shuts Inlet’s buoys over to the Light Station keepers in-Charge of the Light Station, and the men the inlet down to all boat traffic in extreme instead of hiring a new Buoy Master. Each who filled the Light Station’s barracks were weather.

Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station • October 2009 5 Feature Article Buoys: Signposts of the Sea Both side lines you see ahead, recognized the importance of maintaining Blessed with the sovereign’s support, Port your helm and show your red, safe waterways. Prolific builders of the power and influence of Trinity House Green to green and red to red, navigational aids, the League worked grew to include the procurement of naval Perfect safety Go ahead! diligently to ensure that their sea lanes were stores and provisions for the Royal Navy, the the safest in the world. In 1323 the League construction of naval vessels at the Royal If on your starboard red appear, established a system of floating buoys along Boat Yard, and the writing of laws governing It’s your duty to keep clear, the Vliestroom seaway and throughout the industry. By the mid-16th Century, the To act as judgment thinks it proper, the shallow Zuider Zee to assist authority and power of Trinity To port- or starboard- back- or stop her. merchantmen as they made House had become so extensive their way to and from the busy that rarely could a matter of ublished in the 1909 journal The port cities of Amsterdam and maritime interest be found over Mother’s Book, the Sailor’s Rules Kampen. Consisting primarily which the organization did not P of the Road served as a simple of iron bound wooden casks have control. means for remembering the basic rules and broom shaped markers, Like her father, Queen Working under a royal related to the proper use of buoys, chan- these early buoys remained the charter, the Trinity House Elizabeth I looked to the master nel markers, and running lights along the primary responsibility of port was allowed to fly its own seamen of Trinity House for nation’s waterways. Based upon a stan- authorities. ensign. guidance in most naval matters. dardized system of buoyage known as Although considered one of the 15th Renewed by the Queen in 1558, the guild’s the Lateral Aids to Navigation System, The century’s most influential powers, the Age duties came to include the establishment Sailor’s Rules and other nautical mantras of Discovery initiated a period of steep of a relief fund to assist mariners in distress, like “Red Right Return” remain as popu- decline for the League. Slow to respond the procurement and inspection of naval lar with professional mariners and recre- to advancements in naval architecture and ships, and the licensing of all pilots and ship ational boaters today as they were more unable to compete with Europe’s emerging masters plying the waters of the British than a century ago. nation states, the Hanse could only watch Isles. Immensely important to nautical as they were left astern of the growing The signing of the Seamarks Act of safety but often overlooked by historians maritime industries of Portugal, England, 1566 expanded the sweeping authority and lighthouse aficionados; the humble and other European powers. of Trinity House even further by granting buoy has a long and distinguished history Separated from mainland Europe it the right to “set up beacons, marks and dating back to the earliest days of maritime by the North Sea, the rulers of medieval signs for the sea whereby dangers could commerce. Although undoubtedly used Britain knew that their nation’s future lay by many of the world’s ancient seafaring closely tied to the sea. Prolific exporters cultures, the first recorded use of a buoy of raw materials and manufactured goods, can be found in the 12th century Spanish heavily laden merchantmen became a publication La Compasso de Navigare. common sight in English harbors. Varying Published around 1250 AD, this unique in size and importance, these port facilities book provided mariners with navigational were generally managed by townships or data related to the Mediterranean coastline, maritime guilds. They were often accessed the Straits of Gibraltar, and Northern by rivers and channels that wove their way Africa. The first of its kind to be produced, through treacherous shoals. Mariners who La Compasso de Navigare included were unfamiliar with the area frequently information related to a system of buoys employed the services of local pilots to along the Guadalquivir River which led guide them safely to the wharf. from the Atlantic Ocean to the port city of Concerned with the danger of Trinity House used a variety of buoys, several of Seville in southern Spain. inexperienced pilots navigating the Thames which are shown here. The Spanish were by no means alone River, a mariners’ guild by the name of in their quest to ensure the continued “The Fellowship of the Most Glorious and safety of their fleet. Founded in the 12th Undivided Trinity and of Saint Clement” century, the Hanseatic League was a or “The Trinity House” petitioned the powerful alliance of northern maritime British Crown for the authority to regulate cities that wielded considerable economic London’s maritime commerce. Granted and political power. Originally consisting by King Henry VIII in 1514, the approved of only a handful of Germanic ports on royal charter identified Trinity House as the Baltic Sea, membership in the League the primary organization responsible for steadily rose to more than sixty coastal the relief, increase, and augmentation of communities including the wealthy cities shipping in the English realm. Duties of of Amsterdam, Lüebric, and Hamburg. the guild included the regulation and Commonly referred to as the Hanse supervision of river pilots, the development (German for guild or association), the and enforcement of safe navigation League’s influence continued to grow practices, and the ongoing safety and through the 14th century. security of Britain’s domestic maritime Chart of the River Thames dating from 1790. Notice how Like all seafaring cultures, the Hanse interests. the chart shows several buoys being used to mark the channels.

6 October 2009 • Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station two shillings per ton, and fishing vessels that limited both the size of buoys and and small vessels transporting lumber and the accuracy of their placement, private other building materials locally paid even contractors were regularly criticized by the less with an annual tax of only five shillings maritime community. Of the approximate per year. 77 buoys that did exist by 1810, the majority Buoys were rarely used in the American were either of the old wooden cask design colonies. The only exceptions were a series or simple wooden bundles held together of cask buoys along the Delaware River, with an iron band. Difficult to see and recorded in 1767; and a number of spar lacking any semblance of standardization, buoys in Boston Harbor. Rarely mentioned these early buoys proved to be of limited in navigational lists of the time, colonial- use to local pilots and a hazard to mariners era aids were typically modeled after the who were unfamiliar with the area. outdated wooden cask design used by The Light House Establishment the Hanseatic League over three centuries continued to languish under Pleasanton earlier. Difficult to see, poorly placed, who was highly criticized for his use of and rarely maintained, colonial aids to technology that was decades behind that navigation were often criticized for their of Europe. Spar buoys entered service in ineffectiveness and lack of standardization US waters in the early 1800s. Little more from one port to the next. than a long wooden pole weighted at one The conclusion of the American end to help it stand upright in the water, Revolution and ratification of the the inexpensive nature of the spar buoy Constitution ushered in a new era for met the Fifth Auditor’s fiscally conservative A sailing auxiliary tramp steamer, with lighters alongside, at a buoy off Greenwich. maritime safety along the Atlantic seaboard. criteria perfectly despite its questionable Commonly referred to as the “Father of the performance. By 1850, nearly 1,000 were in be avoided and escaped and ships could Constitution”, statesman James Madison use along America’s waterways. better come into their ports without peril.” actively promoted the federalization of Realizing the nation’s aids to navigation Known commonly as aids to navigation, America’s aids to navigation and the system fell well short of the maritime these beacons, marks, and signs included a establishment of a cargo tax to raise funds industry’s needs under the Fifth Auditor, system of buoys and channel markers that “necessary for the support of lighthouse, Congress created the Lighthouse Board in mariners employed while navigating the hospitals for disabled seaman, and other 1852 to oversee ongoing maritime safety treacherous waters of the British Isles. In establishments incident to commerce.” operations. Comprised of nine maritime 1836, responsibility for the procurement, James Jackson of Georgia concurred, adding experts drawn from both the armed services construction, and operation of all that the tax be applied towards “the support and civilian sector, the Lighthouse Board lighthouses in English waters was added of lighthouses and beacons for purposes of effected rapid changes in the quality, design, to Trinity House’s growing list of maritime navigation … so as to encourage American duties. shipping.” Others in Congress agreed. Founded by the British in the 17th and Signed into law by the First Congress, 18th centuries, the economic interests of the Lighthouse Act of 1889 established Colonial America were closely tied to the federal control over all aids to navigation sea. Like England, the Colonies relied heavily within American waters. Modeled loosely upon maritime commerce to transport a after Trinity House, the United States Light wide variety of products including raw House Establishment (USLHE) was created materials, naval stores, and agricultural to build, maintain, and operate the nation’s goods. The need to maintain safe sea lanes network of navigational aids. could not be ignored. Starting with twelve colonial-era Consisting primarily of lighthouses, lighthouses and an unknown quantity of day beacons, post lanterns, and buoys, buoys, the number of navigational aids colonial-era aids were commissioned and employed along America’s waterways maintained not by the British government slowly grew during the thirty-year tenure but by the individual colony, city, port, or of the Fifth Auditor of the Treasury, merchant group that they served. Generally Stephen Pleasanton. Considered a located in or around America’s busiest consummate government bureaucrat and ports of call, aids to navigation were rarely notorious spendthrift, Pleasanton made found in isolated locations where the local it all but impossible for the Light House citizenry were unwilling to fund such costly Establishment to build an aid to navigation projects. system equal to the demands of America’s Funds were generally raised for the growing maritime industry. erection, maintenance, and operation of Unlike lighthouses, buoys received navigational aids through local port fees. very little attention from lighthouse Boston Light, for example, received its officials during the Establishment’s first funding from the collection of cargo taxes. fifty years of existence. Instead of doing the Large vessels entering or exiting the harbor work itself, the USLHE chose to outsource Fresnel lens have appeared on minor aids to navigation were required to pay one penny per ton of the responsibility to the civilian sector. for more than a century, this 200 mm lens was once cargo, smaller coastal vessels were charged Operating out of small sailing vessels installed on a navigation buoy.

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and effectiveness of aids to navigation used wind-driven predecessors including an in American waters. Unlike Pleasanton, the open deck, crane, and plenty of room for Board encouraged innovation, ingenuity, buoys of all shapes and sizes. and the use of cutting edge technology in In addition to converting to the Lateral lighthouse and buoy development. Aids to Navigation System, the Lighthouse Under the Board’s mandate to Board also invested in a program to replace “discharge all administrative duties of its outdated buoys. Beginning in 1900, said office relating to the construction, the Light House Establishment began illumination, inspection, and the arduous task of replacing many of its Commissioned in 1857, the USLHT Shubrick was the superintendence of lighthouses, light Lighthouse Establishment’s first steam powered antiquated wooden aids with buoys of vessels, beacons, buoys, seamarks, and tender. It saw service on the West Coast. modern design including “nuns” (conical their appendages,” the number and quality shaped buoys), “cans” (cylindrical shaped of America’s aids to navigation increased buoys), spheres, pillars, and spars. Although dramatically. Totaling less than 1,500 in some were still made of wood, others 1855, the number of buoys rose to over were constructed of riveted plate iron and 3,300 by 1880, and to more than 4,800 by compartmentalized to reduce the likelihood 1900. Major advancements were also made of sinking. The combination of the adoption in the quality, visibility, and placement of of the Lateral System and improvements buoys along the nation’s inland waterways in buoy design helped propel the United and coastlines. States’ Aids to Navigation System into the At the recommendation of Secretary modern era. of the Treasury Robert L. Walker, the United Audible buoys were added to the States in 1848 began moving toward a nation’s growing inventory of navigational universal system of buoyage that would aids with the introduction of Henry eliminate the random design, placement, Brown’s wave activated Bell Buoy in 1855, and color schemes that had infuriated John Courtenay’s ear-splitting Whistle the maritime community for centuries. Buoy in 1875, the Submarine Bell Buoy in Passed by an Act of Congress in 1850, 1906, and the Gong Buoy in 1923. Typically the mandate prescribed that all buoys located in areas plagued by heavy fog, “should be colored and numbered so that audible buoys were frequently used to in entering from seaward red buoys with mark harbor entrances, dangerous shoals, Bell buoys, mooring chains, and weights (“rocks”) even numbers should be on the starboard piled on the deck of the USLHT Oak. or other navigational hazards. or right hand; black (later green) buoys Great strides were also made in the with odd numbers on the port or left development of illuminated buoys in the hand, buoys with red and black horizontal late 1800s. Initially utilizing unreliable stripes should indicate shoals with channel oil lamps similar to the types that were on either side; and buoys in channel ways commonly found in lighthouses, illuminated should be colored with black and white buoys experienced a technologic leap perpendicular stripes.” with the introduction of the acetylene- Although numerous types of buoys powered Foster Buoy in 1887. Prone to were employed by the USLHE, most were rolling in rough seas, the limited success of used to identify navigable channels, mark the Foster was soon eclipsed by far more underwater hazards and wreck sites, or sophisticated models including the self- to communicate important information pressurized Willson Calcium Carbide Buoy to passing mariners. Buoys were classified and the Pintsch Naphtha Buoy which was according to size and placement. First- later converted to acetylene gas. class buoys were primarily located at the Produced by the Safety Car and entrances to harbors or wherever large Electric Company of New York, the Pintsch highly visible buoys were needed. Second- Buoy contained a 6 to 8 foot long cylinder class buoys, which were smaller, marked that held up to 12 months worth of fuel. Invented by John Courtenay in 1875, the Courtenay rivers and secondary harbor entrances. Whistle Buoy could be heard from more than ten Although reliable, compressed gas buoys Third-class buoys, the smallest of the three, miles away. posed a significant danger to the men who marked areas where deep drafted vessels worked on them. In 1910, an exploding could not go. Pintsch Buoy killed a machinist serving on Relying solely on sailing vessels prior to the USLHT Amaranth while the tender was 1850, the Lighthouse Establishment’s ability tied up to the Lighthouse Depot’s dock. to service its growing number of buoys Occurring just after the technician was greatly improved with the purchase had completed a pressure test, the force of the agency’s first steam-driven tender, of the explosion was so great that it drove the USLHT Shubrick, in 1857. Collectively the bottom of the buoy through the dock known as the “Black Hulled Fleet” due to and the top of the buoy through the roof the color of their hulls, steam powered of the lamp shop. The deadly incident was The buoy tender USLHT Lily was the first steam tender tenders possessed many advantages over designed specifically for river service. She served on unfortunately not an isolated occurrence their slower and far more cumbersome the Mississippi from 1875 until her sinking in 1911. and work on pressurized gas buoys

8 October 2009 • Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station Coast Guardsmen clean a collection of iron barrel First introduced in 1883, the Pintsch Gas Buoy featured buoys in the 1940s. one of the first compressed gas lanterns to be used on minor navigational aids.

A member of the “Black Hulled Fleet”, The U.S. Coast Guard Tender Juniper performs maintenance on two navigational buoys.

Measuring 40 feet high and 40 feet wide, a Large A huge navigational buoy and spar buoy await relocation Navigational Buoy (LNB) can possess many features following shift in the channel. including a light, fog horn, radar reflector, and weather monitoring equipment. possessed a system that was second to Invented by Matt Anundiin 1923, this early electric buoy none. Advancements under the Coast featured a battery powered lamp. possible, local lamp lighters were hired Guard included a variety of navigational on a part-time basis to tend to buoys and buoys utilizing radio waves, radar waves, remained one the Lighthouse Service’s most beacons that were located along the most and microwaves. One experimental buoy, dangerous tasks until these were replaced isolated sections of river. By 1939, over nicknamed Ensign Peaceful Atom, featured by electric lamps in the early 20th century. 29,000 buoys and channel markers were a nuclear generator as its primary power Just as the turn of the century marked employed in US waters. source. Although touted as the a period of great advancement in buoy In addition to expanding first in the next generation of technology, the increasingly complicated its administrative role, the modern buoys, Ensign Peaceful nature of managing the nation’s growing Lighthouse Service continued Atom proved a dismal failure number of navigational aids initiated a period its ongoing mission to advance and public relations nightmare. of great administrative change within the buoy technology with the It was quietly removed from lighthouse community. In 1910, Congress introduction of several new Baltimore Harbor in 1966. disbanded the Lighthouse Board and designs including the first In the early 1970s, the replaced it with the Bureau of Lighthouses. electrically lit buoy in 1888, the Coast Guard developed the Commonly referred to as the Lighthouse automatically occulting light Large Navigational Buoy or Service, the Bureau flourished under the in 1917, and the Gong Buoy in LNB as a replacement for capable leadership of George Putnam who 1922. Introduced for the first Bell buoys still serve lightships. Measuring 40 feet served as the agency’s Commissioner from time in 1935, battery-powered as audible aids to high and just as wide, these 1910 until his retirement in 1935. lighting gradually replaced the navigation to this day. impressive buoys were operated During his 25 years as Commissioner older and far more dangerous electronically and featured a of Lighthouses, Putnam spent considerable acetylene lamps. The transition to battery 7,500 candlepower xenon gas light that time reorganizing the infrastructure of the power was completed in the 1960s. could be seen at a distance of 10 miles away nation’s aids to navigation system. Previously Transferred to the US Coast Guard and a foghorn with an audible range of over managed by private contractors, the with the dissolution of the Lighthouse 3 miles. Important modern innovations Lighthouse Service assumed responsibility Service in 1939, American aids to also included the use of plastic, foam, solar for all river aids shortly after its inception. navigation continued to develop through panels, and light emitting diodes (LEDs). Although performing the work itself when the following decades until the nation Developed by the Gilman Corporation,

Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station • October 2009 9 Feature Article Object of the Quarter

This quarter’s object is not an object at all but is, rather, a collection of objects. The museum has long had a group of lanterns and small navigational beacons that have been in storage. We are proud to announce that these are now on display in an exhibit called Minor Lights. Located on the balcony of the Lens Exhibit Build- ing, over 30 examples of buoy lanterns, small beacons for lighthouses, ship and An ATON Coast Guardsman performs maintenance on hand lanterns, and post lanterns can now the solar panel of an illuminated buoy. be seen together for the very first time. This new exhibit shows how Fresnel lens technology was adapted not just for large lighthouse beacons, but for smaller lenses and lanterns as well. There are examples of small beacons made of individually cast prisms, mold-made lenses, and modern beacons with acrylic Fres- nel panels. Each group of lights contains unique and often rare examples. Post lanterns were developed as The Coast is phasing out its old steel buoys and replacing them with foam buoys like the one navigational markers for small harbors, diagrammed above and pictured below. channels, and other close-to-shore areas. Spar buoys come in many shapes and sizes. Some of these had fuel the use of ionomer foam in reservoirs that allowed buoy construction began 8 days of continuous in the late 1980s with the service. Our collection Coast Guard’s search for a includes a rare United material superior to either States Lighthouse Es- steel or plastic. Made of tablishment Post Lan- DuPont Surlyn and Exxon tern B. Made before Iotek ionomer resins, these 1910, this lantern is durable foam buoys have unusual because it is lived up to their description nickel plated to help by the US Coast Guard as reduce corrosion. Channel “indestructible, unsinkable, markers are Another Light- and stronger than steel”. common the nation’s historic aids to navigation house Service artifact Coated in smooth durable sights along into towering relics, buoys remain as is a general utility hand the nation’s plastic available in a wide many inland important today as they were in centuries lantern marked USLHE variety of colors, ionomer waterways. past. Professional mariners and recreational on its globe. Produced buoys have replace both boaters still scan the horizon in search of in about 1900 by the steel and plastic as the buoy material of a twinkling light of red, green, or white, C.T. Ham Company, choice in many of the world’s maritime and tilt their heads towards the sound of this was a popular and nations. a ringing bell, shrill whistle, or melodious inexpensive tin lan- In 1980, the United States joined 50 fog horn. For as long as men and women tern that would have other nations by adopting the International ply the waves, the buoy will undoubtedly been supplied to light- Association of Lighthouse Authorities continue to guide them safely home. house keepers for use (IALA) Maritime Buoyage System. Similar in their dwellings and to the Lateral System, the IALA-B (also around the lighthouse known as the U.S. Aids to Navigation The Bell Buoy grounds. The small- System) applies to all fixed and floating By Rudyard Kipling est hand lantern in marks which indicate the side and center- the exhibit was used lines of navigable channels, natural dangers, I dip and I surge and I swing, at the Light Station wrecks, underwater obstructions, regulated In the rip of the racing tide, shortly after World War navigation areas, and other important By the gates of doom I sing, II by Officer-in-Charge features. Most lighted and unlighted On the horns of death I ride. Charner Smith. This beacons other than lighthouses, sector A ship-length overside, tiny lantern has a red lights, range lights, and lightships are Between the course and the sand, lens on one side and included in the system. Fretted and bound I bide, a green lens on the Although modern navigational Peril whereof I cry. other and could have technology such as the Global Positioning Would I change with my brother a league inland? been used in the bow System (GPS) may have turned many of (Shoal! ‘Ware shoal!) Not I! of a small boat.

10 October 2009 • Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station Education News

s many of our readers know, the Preservation Association has been A actively engaged in expanding its educational offerings to local schools, youth-oriented groups, and civic organizations. Considerable time has been spent these past few years in the ongoing development of educational outreach programs and on-site workshops which will be made available to all local school groups free of charge. The Association will be reintroducing many of these programs to Volusia County teachers during a series of meetings scheduled from August through October. The presentations will include information related to the history of The buoy and the Ponce Inlet Light Station as well as channel marker lenses the Preservation Association’s current on display include a state certified teachers, online lessons educational program options which number of fascinat- and activities may be accessed under the include: ing examples made in “Educational Resources” tab in the main different parts of the Option 1: Guided Tours of Light Station menu bar. Available resources include: world. There are sev- Bring your class to the lighthouse for History for Students, Pre-Visit Activities, eral clear, mold-made a guided tour of the historic grounds and Post-Visit Activities, and a wide variety lenses that were made buildings. of lesson plans in PDF format that may in America by Corning Glass Company. be downloaded for use in a classroom One of these still retains its top, complete Option 2: Guided Tour Plus Workshop setting. with a bird spike to prevent nesting. (See When scheduling your on-site page 7) A rare river lantern was used by the tour, you may also select from a list of Option 4: Educational Outreach Lighthouse Establishment and has a “view- available workshops, including: Science Programs ing port.” This little window in the central of Light, Artifact Box, Keeper’s Jobs, The Association has developed a lens allowed the keeper to see inside. If Archaeology Dig, The Open Boat, Chip number of Outreach Programs designed the interior candle had burned down be- Log, Radio Beacon, Compass Reading for students of all ages. Educational low the focal plane, it would have to be and Lighthouse Poetry. Outreach programs include: replaced by the light attendant. There is Option 3: Online Lesson Plans and • Lighthouse Power Point Presentations also a pair of small buoy lenses made by Pre/Post- Visit Activities Presented by a costumed lighthouse Sweden’s AGA Company shortly after 1921. Individuals wishing to access keeper, power point presentations The individually cast prisms and lenses for lighthouse related lesson plans and pre/ include: What is a Lighthouse?, these were made in Germany by the Wil- post visit activities may do so online Lighthouse Shapes and Sizes, and Living helm Weule Company. at www.ponceinlet.org. Developed by at the Lighthouse. Lastly, a grouping of small lighthouse optics is on view. These were electrically p o w e r e d , (l-r): Volunteers Art Hahn, John Mann, and Allen Bestwick and some would have rotated to produce a flash char- acteristic. Their lenses are acrylic. Several were used at the top of our tower between 1982 and the in- stallation of our restored third order lens in 2004. Most notable is a rotating 250 mm beacon that served here from 1989 until its circuit- ry was destroyed by lightning in 1996.

Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station • October 2009 11 Education News, cont’d. Volunteer News Our thanks go out to Carroll and Jo Anne Hamilton, Tommy Campbell, Mariann n an effort to escape the tropical heat Elkowitz, Charlene McLaughlin, Kristi I and humidity so typical of Florida during Drumheller, Blake Derr, Adrian Geary, Al the summer months, volunteers opted Sepa and Gerry Harris for spending the to conduct many of the Association’s better part of their day at the lighthouse scheduled workshops in the air conditioned and making it memorable for our visitors. comfort of the gift shop, lens building, and In addition to the event’s guest-oriented keepers’ dwellings. activities, we had the added pleasure of Included in these scheduled activities hosting a remote broadcast by WSBB (AM were five Cape Canaveral Lens Maintenance 1230 – New Smyrna Beach). Morning Demonstrations. Conducted by volunteers radio personality and station owner Skip John Mann, Art Hahn and Gerry Harris, Diegel promoted the Lighthouse while visitors were given the opportunity to interviewing Programs Manager Bob observe the white-uniformed gentlemen as Callister, Executive Director Ed Gunn, they performed the tedious yet necessary and Volunteers Tommy Campbell, and • U.S.L.H.E. Traveling Library Box maintenance procedures that constituted Gladys and Earl Davis. It was a wonderful Modeled after the historic mobile a part of a historic lighthouse keeper’s opportunity for this local treasure to be libraries that were once delivered to weekly tasks. Fortunately for them (and promoted, as such, on a local radio station. light stations around the country, this for our visitors) the lens maintenance was Anyone who is interested in educating reproduction wooden box contains held in the Lens Museum rather than the the public about the unique maritime and numerous lighthouse themed fiction lighthouse where the temperature of the social history of the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse and nonfiction books, videos/DVDs, lens room often reaches well above 100°F. is encouraged to join our dedicated “family” lesson plans, and other educational All we can say is “Thank goodness for air of volunteers by contacting Program activities. Books are carefully chosen conditioning!” Manager Bob Callister at 386-761-1821 or to ensure that each library contains On Saturday, August 1st, attendees of via email at [email protected]. books appropriate for students of the American Horn Quartet Workshop Snow-birds are always welcome! varying ability. The Library Box may performed a 45 minute concert for be scheduled in conjunction with the an enthusiastic Lighthouse audience. Keeper in the Classroom program. Comprised of both professional and • Keeper in the Classroom Students amateur French horn musicians, this are visited by one of the Association’s musical aggregation amazed the audience “Old Lighthouse Keepers” who, dressed with several wonderful pieces outside of Edu- in a lighthouse keeper’s uniform, the gift shop despite the day’s sweltering discusses the purpose, construction, heat. and characteristics of lighthouses, their The museum experienced record unique role in maritime history, and breaking attendance during National The American Horn Quartet what it was like to live at an isolated light Lighthouse Day on Friday, August 7th. station during the turn-of-the-century. Designated by Congress in 1989, National Additional activities may include a 20- Lighthouse Day celebrates the anniversary minute introductory video and student of the 1789 Act that led to the creation of activity. the U.S. Light Houses Establishment and established Federal control over all aids • “The Open Boat” Living History to navigation in U.S. waters. Attended by Workshop Designed specifically for over 530 visitors between the hours of middle and high school students who 10:00 and 2:00, the day’s events included have read Stephen Crane’s acclaimed numerous activities presented by ten of short story “The Open Boat”, this Board Members Gladys and Earl Davis talk with Skip the Association’s dedicated volunteers. Diegel of WSBB unique living history program provides students with the opportunity to talk with Edward Murphy, Captain of the ill-fated filibustering tug, Commodore. Students will interact with one of the Association’s costumed volunteers who will lead a fascinating discussion addressing filibustering expeditions to Cuba, author Stephen Crane, and Captain Murphy’s hair raising experience following the sinking of the Commodore on January 1st, 1897.

Teachers interested in more information about any of the above programs may contact Bob Callister via email at [email protected], or by phone at 386-761-1821 ext.18.

12 October 2009 • Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station Thank You & Wish List

e have received a number of W outstanding artifact donations over the past quarter. Thanks go to Ann Caneer, Earl Davis, Lonnie Arnold, and to docent John Mann for various books, tools, oil lamps, and a barometer. Jan Ingrahm donated a 19th century ship’s bell which was retrieved many years ago by her husband, Glenn, from the Commodore shipwreck. Marion M. and Jacques N. Jacobsen, Jr., have made a number of important donations this quarter including an early 20th century regulation lighthouse keeper’s uniform hat, a lighthouse keeper’s

soft work hat, and a rare World War I vintage lighthouse keeper’s collar tab. The Jacobsens also donated two extremely rare Seminole-War-era military items – an army belt buckle and an infantry hat insignia. They also donated a Civil War Union Army belt buckle, artillery hat insignia, and an infantry hat insignia. These are all such welcome additions to our collection. Thank you all! Our wish list always includes lighthouse-related artifacts and antiques, as well as any 19th and early 20th century clothing, personal objects, and home furnishings. We are particularly interested Edu- in late 19th century parlor chairs, and art work from the same period. We would also like to acquire artifacts and documents related to early aviation in the Daytona Beach area.

Lighthouses of the World lantern. The 39 foot tall concrete tower protection is possible because some is painted white with black bands at of the materials for the Chochin are the top and bottom and seven fine gray obtained from a holy mountain (Saijoji Odawara Chochin horizontal lines; there’s also a metal Temple, Mt. Daiyu) where, according “hanger” at the top. The kanji lettering is to a legend, a goblin named Tengu lives Lighthouse the name of the town. who is said to be untroubled by evil hile researching lighthouses Chochin, widely used during the sprits. W in Japan for the Edo period (1603-1869), is During the Edo period, because of Lighthouses of the World a portable light that uses lower levels of artificial light, the night- project, some unusual a candle as a light source. time was darker than it is today, and features were discovered. Japanese paper is applied to people had to travel on foot. Odawara Several of the lighthouses, a spiral-shaped coil of finely Chochin was both useful to light the in addition to their beacons, split bamboo, and rings are way and psychologically reassuring to have a powerful stationary fitted to the top and bottom protect against evil spirits. For these searchlight which is used of the Chochin so it can be reasons it was widely used, particularly to illuminate a dangerous collapsed and folded flat. The by travelers, from the beginning of the obstruction offshore. Some person who originated the 18th century. of the towers are built in the shape of a lamp design lived in Odawara, and large garden lantern, a pagoda, a smaller that is why they are called “Odawara hand or hanging lantern, a lily or a rocket. Chochin”. One of these unusual lighthouses is on An Odawara Chochin has three Sagami Bay southeast of Tokyo. distinguishing features. It is so small and The lighthouse is at the end of the light that it can be collapsed and put main breakwater protecting the small in the bosom of a kimono. It is durable harbor of Odawara on the northwest and can be used in rain, mist, or other shore of Sagami Bay. It is in the shape of bad weather. And it was believed to a chochin, which is a traditional paper protect people against evil spirits. This

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14 October 2009 • Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station Gift Shop children of all ages. also be taken by phone at (386) 761- Our wide selection of merchandise 1821 ext. 21. Cash and credit cards are ow is the perfect time to get an early includes clothing, house wares, toys, accepted. Happy Holidays! N start on all of your holiday shopping jewelry, and collectibles. Don’t forget our Please contact our Gift Shop Manager needs. Avoid the rush by purchasing your affordable lighthouse memberships and Connie Bach at [email protected] gifts at the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse. The memorial bricks which make wonderful for more information regarding these and Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse Gift gifts as well. Customers may purchase other gift products. Usual UPS rates and a Shop specializes in unique lighthouse and items in the gift shop or online at www. $4.00 shipping and handling fee apply to nautical themed gifts for men, women, and poncelighthousestore.org. Orders may all orders.

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October 2009 • Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station