The reason is that the lighthouse needs to be seen out in a considerable distance out into the ocean.
They controlled lighthouses so the enemy could crash into the shore, island, rocks, or reef.
Lighthouses are not spiraled, they are towers.
Egyptians were the people who invented lighthouses. Lighthouses guide sailors as navigators and as warning systems
Thirty one on the mainland and possibly another 15 or so on offshore islands. All Australian lighthouses are unmanned.
There are 23 lighthouses in Connecticut.
Ohio has 24 lighthouses.
Because they display a light for the guidance of mariners.
the state has a long rocky seacoast
their are currently 1,983,475 lighthouses
Nobody actually know when and where the lighthouses were built.
There are lighthouses all along the coast.
After the great lighthouse keeper revolt of '08. You see, after the foghorn tax was imposed, all the lighthouse keepers went on strike, and the US sent their military (which was taking a very long coffee break) in to exterminate all of them. Now the military is entirely devoted to lighthouses, which is why it's so big.