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Lighthouse Legends

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Explore the ingenious towers, hardworking keepers, and life-saving innovations behind historic lighthouses.

Lighthouse Legends

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  1. Grace Darling, who helped her lighthouse-keeper father rescue shipwreck survivors in 1838, lived at which lighthouse?
  2. What did a lighthouse’s distinctive painted daymark help sailors do?
  3. Beginning in the 1870s, how did the U.S. Lighthouse Service provide changing reading material to isolated keeper families?

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