Lighthouses have always been important for helping ships to navigate away from rocks and reefs that pose dangers to them.
Rockstations - keepers in the lighthouse for 3 months. Shorestations - keepers in houses nearby, could visit local village when needed. Same in 1870 as up to about 25 years ago. lighthouses now automated, no need for keepers.
Because they display a light for the guidance of mariners.
Lighthouses are not spiraled, they are towers.
Egyptians were the people who invented lighthouses. Lighthouses guide sailors as navigators and as warning systems
There are 23 lighthouses in Connecticut.
Ohio has 24 lighthouses.
The importance of lighthouses is that they help the ships out at sea to find the harbour safley, especially when there are rocks or icebergs which the ships may bump into. Mostly for ships at sea so they know where the coast line is.
their are currently 1,983,475 lighthouses
Nobody actually know when and where the lighthouses were built.
There are lighthouses all along the coast.
Cape Romain Lighthouses was created in 1857.
Billingsgate Island lighthouses were eroded away.