Episode 39 - St. Augustine Lighthouse

100:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000Hi everybody, I'm Vincent.200:00:02,000 --> 00:00:03,000And I'm Emily.300:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,500You're listening to the Lighthouse Lowdown.400:00:06,500 --> 00:00:17,000I would have gotten a lot of flack for that if I had not hit it on time.500:00:17,000 --> 00:00:18,000It was close.600:00:18,000 --> 00:00:19,000I don't think so.700:00:19,000 --> 00:00:23,000When I edit, I realize I pick on you every single time.800:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,000Even when you did it right.900:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,000I was like, that was kind of close.1000:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,000A little picking.1100:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,000So, welcome to the episode.1200:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,000I prepared this, and then the day I was going to present it, I did not.1300:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,000So we're all going to go on this ride together.1400:00:38,000 --> 00:00:39,000What are you talking about?1500:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,000The day I was going to present this episode.1600:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,000I was all prepared to go.1700:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,000I didn't do it that day, so now we're starting cold.1800:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,000Oh, I see. It was like a while ago?1900:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,000No, it was a couple days ago.2000:00:50,000 --> 00:00:51,000But we're good.2100:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,000I've got a couple of things to show you, including a video.2200:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,000So we'll see how the TV works and all that.2300:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,000Thank you everyone for joining us.2400:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,000Do you have history buoy?2500:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,000I do.2600:01:01,000 --> 00:01:06,000My history buoy for today is clocks.2700:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,000Clocks.2800:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,000Is this nautical themed clocks?2900:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,000Specifically, United States Lighthouse Service clocks.3000:01:12,000 --> 00:01:13,000Okay.3100:01:13,000 --> 00:01:14,000So, I'm going to start off.3200:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,000I'm already on board.3300:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,000There's a lot of different clocks used in lighthouses over the years.3400:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,000I'm going to cover the most prevalent from my research.3500:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,000So, they were made mainly by three different manufacturers.3600:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,000So, we're talking US based, right?3700:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,000Because US Lighthouse Service.3800:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,000Otherwise, you can get way carried away.3900:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,000Yeah.4000:01:31,000 --> 00:01:32,000Three manufacturers.4100:01:32,000 --> 00:01:33,000And did you?4200:01:33,000 --> 00:01:34,000No.4300:01:34,000 --> 00:01:35,000Oh, good.4400:01:35,000 --> 00:01:36,000I tried not to.4500:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,000Seth Thomas, Chelsea Clock Company, and E. Howard Company.4600:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,000So, here's two images of brass clocks.4700:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,000They're a little blown up, as you can tell.4800:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,000They're early 2000s images.4900:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,000Yeah.5000:01:48,000 --> 00:01:53,000So, used to keep time at stations, light ships.5100:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,000So, you know, what are they called?5200:01:55,000 --> 00:01:56,000Yeah, light ships, right?5300:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,000Lighthouse tenders.5400:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,000Light ships and lighthouse tenders.5500:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,000Make sure, wow.5600:02:03,000 --> 00:02:07,000Caffeine is really coming for me.5700:02:07,000 --> 00:02:08,000So, they're significant.5800:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000Timekeeping in lighthouse.5900:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,000Lighthouse keepers life is very significant.6000:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,000Because they're looking at flashing pattern.6100:02:15,000 --> 00:02:16,000Making sure that's right.6200:02:16,000 --> 00:02:17,000After it's set up.6300:02:17,000 --> 00:02:18,000Making sure it's consistent.6400:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,000They're looking at fueling.6500:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,000And they're noting time of significant events in their log books.6600:02:25,000 --> 00:02:31,000And like, if you have to rewind the clockwork mechanism and everything,6700:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,000that's all based on passing time.6800:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,000When they're coming in, when they're going from service,6900:02:36,000 --> 00:02:41,000they note the time in the log book, as well as vessel sightings or storms,7000:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,000anything like that.7100:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,000You've got to have reliable clocks.7200:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,000Yeah.7300:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,000They have to be very high quality.7400:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,000They have to be seaworthy, if you will.7500:02:48,000 --> 00:02:53,000So, typically you'd have a small round brass clock that's mounted on a7600:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,000lighthouse wall or lighthouse vessel.7700:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000And they're also used in the tower.7800:02:59,000 --> 00:03:04,000Sometimes they had larger clocks that were in the lighthouse keepers house.7900:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,000Like, they have very ornate ones that are pendulum style.8000:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,000But this is the most practical.8100:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,000And it was a wound clock.8200:03:12,000 --> 00:03:13,000Why brass?8300:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,000Because of, and this is still true today in like nautical construction.8400:03:17,000 --> 00:03:22,000Because of its resistance to rusting, especially with saltwater spray.8500:03:22,000 --> 00:03:23,000Nice.8600:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,000Yeah, on a ship, that would be important.8700:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000So, most often they were made by, the largest quantity of them was by a8800:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000company in Boston, Massachusetts.8900:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,000This is the Chelsea Company we mentioned.9000:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,000So, Chelsea Cloud Company.9100:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,000And they're still in business today.9200:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,000Cool.9300:03:40,000 --> 00:03:41,000Wow.9400:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,000So, this is a snap from their website.9500:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,000Very fancy.9600:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,000Very expensive.9700:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,000They should have ship bells.9800:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,000All the ship bells.9900:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000Look at the cost.10000:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,000Why?10100:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,000Yep.10200:03:52,000 --> 00:03:58,000Anywhere from $1,200 to $6,100 for these clocks.10300:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,000And these are all decorative.10400:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000So, they're probably still very high quality.10500:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,000But they've gotten a little ornate.10600:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000And you can see on the left, they've got a bunch of collections.10700:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,000Yeah.10800:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000They're like gifts under $300.10900:04:11,000 --> 00:04:12,000Yeah.11000:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,000If you go to Target, it's gifts under $10.11100:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,000Yeah.11200:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,000So, I think I have one more image.11300:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,000No, I don't.11400:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,000Ignore that.11500:04:22,000 --> 00:04:23,000I'm not looking.11600:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,000All right.11700:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,000Sometimes they have pendulum clocks, like I talked about.11800:04:26,000 --> 00:04:27,000The other type.11900:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,000Like grandfather clocks or just...12000:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,000Or even like small grandfather, just like on the wall mounted.12100:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000And then the other type that's really popular.12200:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,000I didn't add an image, but there's lots of images.12300:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,000Pocket watches.12400:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,000Small pocket watches were really big with lighthouse keepers.12500:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,000Most of them have US LHS engraved on them.12600:04:45,000 --> 00:04:46,000Pretty cool.12700:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,000Very collectible today.12800:04:48,000 --> 00:04:49,000I want one of those.12900:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,000So, those are usually bought from a vendor.13000:04:51,000 --> 00:04:55,000So, they weren't made by three companies like most of these clocks were.13100:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,000Yeah.13200:04:56,000 --> 00:04:57,000That's my lighthouse, boy.13300:04:57,000 --> 00:04:58,000It's clocks.13400:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,000Nice.13500:04:59,000 --> 00:05:05,000And you mentioned eight days once recently in an episode.13600:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,000It's going to come up again in this episode.13700:05:07,000 --> 00:05:12,000Eight days is significant for several reasons, but these are eight day clocks as well.13800:05:12,000 --> 00:05:13,000Cool.13900:05:13,000 --> 00:05:14,000So, most of the clocks were...14000:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,000Wait, what does that mean?14100:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,000You'd wind them every eight days.14200:05:17,000 --> 00:05:21,000Or really every week you'd wind them, but I had eight days of runtime.14300:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,000I forgot you had to wind old clocks.14400:05:23,000 --> 00:05:24,000Yeah, no electricity to them.14500:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,000So, like the holes in the face of the clock there on the top left.14600:05:28,000 --> 00:05:34,000You put a key in, a round key, and then you wind it, which is the same as like a grandfather clock.14700:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,000So, what do they do with their watches?14800:05:36,000 --> 00:05:37,000They wound their watches?14900:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,000Yeah.15000:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,000Watches.15100:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,000What?15200:05:40,000 --> 00:05:41,000As well, watches.15300:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,000I don't think they last eight days.15400:05:42,000 --> 00:05:43,000I doubt it.15500:05:43,000 --> 00:05:44,000Like pocket watches and even some nice...15600:05:44,000 --> 00:05:45,000How could I have not known this?15700:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,000Like nice wrist watches.15800:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,000The bezel on it, like I have an Apple watch I'm holding up.15900:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,000You don't wind this, but it's the same idea.16000:05:52,000 --> 00:05:53,000Yeah.16100:05:53,000 --> 00:05:57,000The bezel, you can actually pull them out and wind it, and it actually charges a spring16200:05:57,000 --> 00:05:58,000that charges...16300:05:58,000 --> 00:05:59,000It twists a spring.16400:05:59,000 --> 00:06:00,000Oh, it twists tension.16500:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,000And then someone who knows...16600:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,000Yeah.16700:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,000Someone who knows better than I can explain watch work.16800:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000There's different types of movements.16900:06:06,000 --> 00:06:07,000Interesting.17000:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,000Yeah.17100:06:08,000 --> 00:06:15,000They have some, I wish I had included another picture on like Patriot collection or nautical17200:06:15,000 --> 00:06:20,000clocks that are like black metal and they have a swinging face on them.17300:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,000So, like it covers it.17400:06:21,000 --> 00:06:22,000Yeah.17500:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,000Like that aren't quite as ornate, but they're still a thousand dollars.17600:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000I want to see nautical clock collection.17700:06:27,000 --> 00:06:28,000I'm going to pull it up.17800:06:28,000 --> 00:06:33,000See Patriot collection, like that style where it's got this like the face, like a porthole17900:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,000face, nautical clocks.18000:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,000Yeah.18100:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,000That's perfect.18200:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,000Well, I was wrong.18300:06:38,000 --> 00:06:39,000320 bucks.18400:06:39,000 --> 00:06:40,000That's almost...18500:06:40,000 --> 00:06:41,000I think it's cool.18600:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,000That almost goes under gifts under $300.18700:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,000250.18800:06:44,000 --> 00:06:45,000There you go.18900:06:45,000 --> 00:06:46,000Keeps going.19000:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,000I like those navy ones.19100:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,000Those are cool.19200:06:48,000 --> 00:06:49,000Yeah.19300:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,000These don't look very nautical to me.19400:06:51,000 --> 00:06:56,000I was expecting like, you know, with how expensive they are, they can't really make them.19500:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,000I'm thinking tacky nautical.19600:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,000And I think that just wouldn't fly with...19700:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,000I don't think that's their target.19800:07:03,000 --> 00:07:07,000But like, I really do enjoy this 24 hour clock, which is cool.19900:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,000They have a 12 hour standard and then 24 hour.20000:07:10,000 --> 00:07:14,000And it's like black dial, white face.20100:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,000Little crescent moon.20200:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,000Yeah.20300:07:16,000 --> 00:07:17,000It's just classy.20400:07:17,000 --> 00:07:18,000It looks tough.20500:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,000Like, I like this, I don't know what to call it, porthole, right?20600:07:21,000 --> 00:07:22,000Like a window.20700:07:22,000 --> 00:07:23,000I want to see what's behind it.20800:07:23,000 --> 00:07:28,000Inspired by Chelsea's World War II Navy engine room.20900:07:28,000 --> 00:07:29,000I would love one.21000:07:29,000 --> 00:07:37,000If anybody at Chelsea Clock Company wants to sponsor the lighthouse lowdown or Seth Thomas21100:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,000or E Howard Company, if you're still around, let us know.21200:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,000I know Chelsea is though.21300:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,000And I was drawn to this website.21400:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,000Well, cool history, Bowie.21500:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,000Thank you.21600:07:47,000 --> 00:07:48,000A little different.21700:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,000I've had that one in my pocket for a long time.21800:07:52,000 --> 00:07:53,000Awful.21900:07:53,000 --> 00:08:00,000But yeah, so today's I'm just going to jump into it.22000:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,000OK.22100:08:01,000 --> 00:08:07,000Today, first I'm going to tell you about the location, the town we're in, which is not labeled22200:08:07,000 --> 00:08:08,000on this image.22300:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,000Oh, so colorful.22400:08:09,000 --> 00:08:10,000Lighthouse back there.22500:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,000Oh, St. Augustine, Florida.22600:08:12,000 --> 00:08:13,000Oh, yes.22700:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,000Also known as Florida.22800:08:15,000 --> 00:08:21,000So this is what the one if anyone listened to our lighthouse cocktail episode, this is22900:08:21,000 --> 00:08:27,000what my wine gift was modeled after, which I have right here.23000:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,000Oh, very nice.23100:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,000I'm going to put that on the table.23200:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,000That opened.23300:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,000This is an open.23400:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,000I'm going to talk about it later on.23500:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,000OK.23600:08:34,000 --> 00:08:35,000For the moment, I'm just going to set it down.23700:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000You can hear the nice.23800:08:37,000 --> 00:08:42,000I thought it was going to be more like a clink and not so much like a thump.23900:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,000So I don't remember which slides I have.24000:08:45,000 --> 00:08:46,000So we're going to go through that together.24100:08:46,000 --> 00:08:47,000So we're just living.24200:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,000Yeah, but we're just living.24300:08:49,000 --> 00:08:54,000So St. Augustine, Florida is on the northeast coast of Florida on the water.24400:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,000OK, it is about 45 minutes from Jacksonville South.24500:08:58,000 --> 00:09:02,000So Jacksonville is the largest city that's nearby.24600:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,000Orlando is not far.24700:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,000I want to say an hour, hour and a half, maybe.24800:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,000It is technically America's oldest city.24900:09:09,000 --> 00:09:10,000Oh, my.25000:09:10,000 --> 00:09:15,000It's founded in September of 1565 by Spanish explorers in Florida.25100:09:15,000 --> 00:09:20,000I believe in their Spanish pronunciation is the land of flowers.25200:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,000So state of Florida today.25300:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,000Cool.25400:09:23,000 --> 00:09:30,000It's the oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in what is now the contiguous United States.25500:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,000OK, United States.25600:09:31,000 --> 00:09:40,000So it's you could say the oldest town is Native American developments, of course, but the oldest English Western settled.25700:09:40,000 --> 00:09:45,000So there is a lot of history for that reason in St. Augustine.25800:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,000It's a really cool little town.25900:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,000Do they have like ruins like cool?26000:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,000Yes.26100:09:50,000 --> 00:09:57,000There's a fort, there's ruins, there's an old town, there's a college that used to be a hotel.26200:09:57,000 --> 00:09:58,000It's like all in one building.26300:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,000It's beautiful.26400:09:59,000 --> 00:10:00,000We're going to we're going to talk about it.26500:10:00,000 --> 00:10:04,000OK, there's only like 15000 residents is what the Internet.26600:10:04,000 --> 00:10:08,000I was really surprised given this image of like so much traffic going on.26700:10:08,000 --> 00:10:14,000That is an island and I can't it technically it might be a different city like township.26800:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,000This bridge is kind of neat.26900:10:16,000 --> 00:10:17,000I'm kind of going on tangents.27000:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000I got coffee and me the bridge.27100:10:19,000 --> 00:10:23,000I want to say it's the Lions Gate or Gate of Lion.27200:10:23,000 --> 00:10:34,000I can't remember if there's two lions that are marble statue that are on the end of the bridge that are modeled after the Medici lions, which are in Italy.27300:10:34,000 --> 00:10:35,000What are those?27400:10:35,000 --> 00:10:47,000And we saw copies of the Medici lions in Sweden in front of the palace made of bronze and so copies like that's what they look like except in stone.27500:10:47,000 --> 00:10:48,000Yep.27600:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,000I want to say marble, but the original Medici.27700:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,000So I went on a tangent.27800:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,000It took me an hour, hour and a half.27900:10:55,000 --> 00:11:05,000The original Medici lions are carved in stone. One was a long time ago and the other was made as a as a partner to it.28000:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,000Also, like maybe 1700s.28100:11:07,000 --> 00:11:15,000And so they're very old and they're at the Medici family residence, which is in Italy.28200:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,000I think in Florence.28300:11:16,000 --> 00:11:21,000Yeah, I would go on a tangent, too, if it had something to do with like old art for some reason.28400:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,000Sculptures and like statues and stuff.28500:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,000I really like them. Yeah.28600:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,000It's the lion that has its paw on a globe or on a ball.28700:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,000It's an orb contested of what it actually is.28800:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,000Oh, there's there's some drama.28900:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,000So there's two copies here.29000:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,000There's copies all over the world.29100:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,000But I thought that was kind of fun.29200:11:39,000 --> 00:11:40,000Cool.29300:11:40,000 --> 00:11:44,000I would really like to visit St. Augustine and you're going to see why.29400:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,000Now you're really interested.29500:11:46,000 --> 00:11:47,000Wow.29600:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,000Mm hmm.29700:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,000There's the old town kind of a market.29800:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,000I see ice cream on the left.29900:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,000That's where I should have my macaron shop.30000:11:54,000 --> 00:11:55,000Shop on the right.30100:11:55,000 --> 00:12:01,000You can sell macarons there with some humidity like it's Florida.30200:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000So there's been hurricanes here and there.30300:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000So it is what it is.30400:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,000This is the lighthouse itself.30500:12:08,000 --> 00:12:15,000So the first thing that drew me to this lighthouse was actually their website.30600:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,000I think I found it's not expecting.30700:12:18,000 --> 00:12:24,000I was wondering if I should interrupt and throw a guess out there for what actually drew you to this lighthouse.30800:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,000And I never would have guessed.30900:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,000Well, their website is really good.31000:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,000And I'll we'll talk about it.31100:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000But there's the wine bottle.31200:12:32,000 --> 00:12:37,000So I was in Orlando, Florida, visiting a friend of mine, Jackson, that you know well.31300:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,000Now he lives here.31400:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,000But when he lived in, I was Tampa.31500:12:41,000 --> 00:12:42,000He lived in Orlando before Tampa.31600:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,000But in Tampa, we went to Publix and they had this bottle of wine.31700:12:46,000 --> 00:12:47,000He's like, you got to see this.31800:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,000I didn't know anything about it.31900:12:48,000 --> 00:12:55,000It is a lighthouse shaped glass, which is modeled exactly after the St. Augustine lighthouse.32000:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,000I'm going to talk all about the winery as well.32100:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,000But so that led me to the website.32200:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,000And here we are because their website is awesome.32300:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,000And I'm actually going to show it to you.32400:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,000So there's a lot to see.32500:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,000I recommend you go and click around on your own.32600:13:08,000 --> 00:13:12,000But I mean, like the interfacing, the symbols cool there.32700:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,000They have a nice logo.32800:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,000Like the format of the website is good.32900:13:16,000 --> 00:13:21,000And then you can see there's a bunch of side links and more information.33000:13:21,000 --> 00:13:22,000They do a lot of cool stuff at this.33100:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,000It's aesthetically pleasing.33200:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,000Yeah.33300:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,000You can visit.33400:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,000There's also ghost tours.33500:13:27,000 --> 00:13:28,000No.33600:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,000I heard St. Augustine's pretty haunted.33700:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,000It is.33800:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,000Are you going to tell us about those?33900:13:34,000 --> 00:13:35,000I know Halloween's over.34000:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,000We're not going into depth on the ghost tours.34100:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,000I figured that might be a separate.34200:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,000There's so much to talk about.34300:13:41,000 --> 00:13:46,000So but I talked with her name is Emma on email.34400:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,000She works with the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum.34500:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,000Maritime.34600:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,000Maritime.34700:13:52,000 --> 00:13:53,000Gosh.34800:13:53,000 --> 00:13:57,000And she gave me permission to check this out on our episode today.34900:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,000So here you go.35000:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,000Nice.35100:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,000And she also wanted me to share a couple of things.35200:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,000So she didn't say this before.35300:14:03,000 --> 00:14:08,000She said they offer a new tour called the Twilight at the Top.35400:14:08,000 --> 00:14:13,000So you can see a one hour after hours exclusive experience, see a working lighthouse and an35500:14:13,000 --> 00:14:18,000active aid to navigation, learn how a lighthouse functions, and enjoy the view from the top35600:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,000at twilight, which is pretty rare.35700:14:20,000 --> 00:14:21,000That would be so cool.35800:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,000So you can see the sunset and see the lighthouse on.35900:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,000And yeah, you'd have the lens going behind you.36000:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,000It says it's weather dependent.36100:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,000Of course.36200:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,000Children must be 44 inches or taller and accompanied by an adult.36300:14:32,000 --> 00:14:33,000Yeah.36400:14:33,000 --> 00:14:34,000Upcoming events.36500:14:34,000 --> 00:14:40,000I don't know when we're airing, but December 6th is Luminary Night, the lighthouse illuminations,36600:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,000tides, tidings, and trees.36700:14:43,000 --> 00:14:48,000Then they have events November 22nd through January 13th.36800:14:48,000 --> 00:14:54,000If they want to experience those lighthouse events and after hours shows.36900:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,000I see.37000:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,000They also have a children's winter camp.37100:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,000So she asked that I share that with our listeners.37200:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,000So they've got.37300:15:01,000 --> 00:15:02,000Why would we be doing.37400:15:02,000 --> 00:15:03,000Yeah.37500:15:03,000 --> 00:15:04,000I can't continue.37600:15:04,000 --> 00:15:05,000No, please.37700:15:05,000 --> 00:15:06,000What would you be doing?37800:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,000All of it?37900:15:07,000 --> 00:15:11,000Oh, I was going to say I'd be doing myself a service by sending my child, my future child38000:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,000to a winter camp at a life.38100:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,000I'd be like, go on, go on, have so much fun.38200:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,000I live vicariously through you.38300:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,000Here's the camera.38400:15:19,000 --> 00:15:20,000Take some pictures.38500:15:20,000 --> 00:15:21,000Yeah.38600:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,000Go on, kid.38700:15:22,000 --> 00:15:23,000Take some pictures.38800:15:23,000 --> 00:15:24,000Ask some ghost questions.38900:15:24,000 --> 00:15:25,000Dark of the moon.39000:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,000I can't speak.39100:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,000Dark of the moon ghost tour.39200:15:29,000 --> 00:15:30,000Ghost tales.39300:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,000Sunset moonrise tour.39400:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,000House of Illuminations.39500:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,000Champagne and hors d'oeuvres.39600:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,000Or is that?39700:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,000Sunset moonrise tour.39800:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,000Oh, yeah.39900:15:38,000 --> 00:15:42,560Enjoy breathtaking views of the sunset and full moon rise with champagne and hors d'oeuvres40000:15:42,560 --> 00:15:44,000at the top of the tower.40100:15:44,000 --> 00:15:45,000Yeah.40200:15:45,000 --> 00:15:49,000So they really probably bring in a lot of revenue for.40300:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,000Yeah.40400:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,000It looks to be in great shape.40500:15:51,000 --> 00:15:52,000They do.40600:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,000And they're the reason I was like, why is this so good?40700:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,000And I told her what's her name?40800:15:57,000 --> 00:15:58,000Emma.40900:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,000Yeah, I could think you remembered.41000:15:59,000 --> 00:16:03,360I told Emma when I first reached out to her, I was like, your website is outstanding.41100:16:03,360 --> 00:16:05,780We look into a lot of Lighthouse websites.41200:16:05,780 --> 00:16:10,000We are probably the top one percent of people who are doing that.41300:16:10,000 --> 00:16:11,000Yeah.41400:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,460And they have I mean, there's none that I've seen that are awful, but there are some like41500:16:14,460 --> 00:16:16,200this one that are just outstanding.41600:16:16,200 --> 00:16:17,200The graphics are great.41700:16:17,200 --> 00:16:18,200Photography is great.41800:16:18,200 --> 00:16:20,280Got so many options.41900:16:20,280 --> 00:16:25,280And I saw at the bottom, they are partners with both the American Alliance of Museums,42000:16:25,280 --> 00:16:27,280which I wasn't familiar with, but also the.42100:16:27,280 --> 00:16:28,280American Alliance.42200:16:28,280 --> 00:16:29,280They're a Smithsonian affiliate.42300:16:29,280 --> 00:16:30,280Oh, my gosh.42400:16:30,280 --> 00:16:36,920So big, big, big tourism, big museum efforts.42500:16:36,920 --> 00:16:40,480Emma is the I believe she's the lead of their marketing team.42600:16:40,480 --> 00:16:42,840So check out the website.42700:16:42,840 --> 00:16:45,120Also see if I can find it quickly.42800:16:45,120 --> 00:16:46,120Research.42900:16:46,120 --> 00:16:47,560All those no gimmicks.43000:16:47,560 --> 00:16:48,560You should talk.43100:16:48,560 --> 00:16:49,560I want to go here.43200:16:49,560 --> 00:16:52,780We could talk about it more.43300:16:52,780 --> 00:16:58,200But they had so they have preservation like they have lamp is what it's called.43400:16:58,200 --> 00:16:59,200Lighthouse archaeology.43500:16:59,200 --> 00:17:00,200Here we go.43600:17:00,200 --> 00:17:01,200Lamp.43700:17:01,200 --> 00:17:06,160St. Augustine Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program.43800:17:06,160 --> 00:17:12,760So it's like maritime archaeology, specifically not just lighthouses, but also maritime themed43900:17:12,760 --> 00:17:13,760shipwrecks.44000:17:13,760 --> 00:17:19,920And they're doing projects and they have research like this is legitimate and they have programs.44100:17:19,920 --> 00:17:24,460I can't speak to when they are available and who's serving on, but they have done this44200:17:24,460 --> 00:17:25,460for a long time.44300:17:25,460 --> 00:17:30,080There's part of the shipwreck stuff.44400:17:30,080 --> 00:17:31,220It's just super cool.44500:17:31,220 --> 00:17:34,640It's not something I see very often.44600:17:34,640 --> 00:17:41,640I really love to do it like a shipwreck episodes or pirate episodes, but we only come out with44700:17:41,640 --> 00:17:42,640one every two weeks.44800:17:42,640 --> 00:17:46,480And I don't know if we'd be disappointing people by doing something other than a lighthouse44900:17:46,480 --> 00:17:47,600on our two weeks.45000:17:47,600 --> 00:17:49,080If people would only let us know.45100:17:49,080 --> 00:17:51,280Yeah, you guys should let us know.45200:17:51,280 --> 00:17:57,500There's lots of things that are outside of just the lighthouse here, but I think it's45300:17:57,500 --> 00:17:59,280fair to say and maritime museum.45400:17:59,280 --> 00:18:04,880The lighthouse is obviously a beautiful thing to go see even if you were just driving by,45500:18:04,880 --> 00:18:05,880honestly.45600:18:05,880 --> 00:18:07,640So, and you can see it's a big scale.45700:18:07,640 --> 00:18:09,640We'll talk about the lighthouse next.45800:18:09,640 --> 00:18:11,520So that's their website.45900:18:11,520 --> 00:18:12,520Highly recommend checking it out.46000:18:12,520 --> 00:18:14,520You see the lighthouse and there she is.46100:18:14,520 --> 00:18:15,520Very nice.46200:18:15,520 --> 00:18:16,520Little red top.46300:18:16,520 --> 00:18:22,920Lots of trees around which you wouldn't expect because you can see that the ground is all46400:18:22,920 --> 00:18:23,920sand.46500:18:23,920 --> 00:18:25,560Yeah, and it's on an island.46600:18:25,560 --> 00:18:27,360So this is St. Augustine.46700:18:27,360 --> 00:18:32,000The city is to the left in our screen view.46800:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,840So it's got a long history and it didn't always look like this as we know from a lot of lighthouse46900:18:35,840 --> 00:18:36,840history.47000:18:36,840 --> 00:18:40,200So the first settlement I talked about was the Spanish settlers.47100:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,3601500 to 1800 they were here.47200:18:42,360 --> 00:18:46,240The Spanish had the first lighthouse here and there's no images or depictions I've47300:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,680seen of it so I didn't include any.47400:18:48,680 --> 00:18:52,000We're just going to talk about the modern tower as far as what we can look at.47500:18:52,000 --> 00:18:58,480But 1500 to 1800s it was wood and stone that was locally sourced.47600:18:58,480 --> 00:19:00,480That was their version of a lighthouse tower.47700:19:00,480 --> 00:19:06,280Oh wait, you're saying, oh, you're saying when the Spanish were here they had a lighthouse.47800:19:06,280 --> 00:19:13,520So the Spanish first arrived in what was Florida now and they had domination, they had domain47900:19:13,520 --> 00:19:23,320rather of this area until 1823 then that was given to the United States.48000:19:23,320 --> 00:19:29,640So the US got control, excuse me, 1821 and immediately they wanted to upgrade the tower48100:19:29,640 --> 00:19:35,520because the reason this area is so valuable is there's this spit you can see that runs48200:19:35,520 --> 00:19:36,860far north and south.48300:19:36,860 --> 00:19:41,880So it's a barrier and you can have ships and portage in here in this area.48400:19:41,880 --> 00:19:45,880Wow, I didn't know that you were, I thought you were talking about like the building of48500:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,160the city and not building of a lighthouse in the 1500s.48600:19:49,160 --> 00:19:50,160Lighthouse as well.48700:19:50,160 --> 00:19:51,800And they don't have any, they don't have anything.48800:19:51,800 --> 00:19:52,800I didn't find it.48900:19:52,800 --> 00:19:59,120It might someone who's a Spanish history in Florida specialist may know, but I couldn't49000:19:59,120 --> 00:20:00,520find it.49100:20:00,520 --> 00:20:10,960So 1823 the United States Congress permitted $5,000 to be used to update the Spanish built49200:20:10,960 --> 00:20:11,960tower.49300:20:11,960 --> 00:20:13,240So like there's a tower there.49400:20:13,240 --> 00:20:17,800We just need to, you know, bring it up to 1823 spec.49500:20:17,800 --> 00:20:25,040So they modified it and it was a 30 foot tower and it went into service in 1824 and here49600:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,580is several.49700:20:27,580 --> 00:20:29,800So 1842 is written on the image.49800:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,040Sight washed away.49900:20:32,040 --> 00:20:33,040Yeah.50000:20:33,040 --> 00:20:34,800This is so pretty.50100:20:34,800 --> 00:20:35,800It is.50200:20:35,800 --> 00:20:39,800You know, this is a totally different type of lighthouse than what they have, like not50300:20:39,800 --> 00:20:45,520that they have to, but it's like whenever they rebuilt the Alcatraz lighthouse, it's50400:20:45,520 --> 00:20:49,360like two very different vibes going on.50500:20:49,360 --> 00:20:55,080This one more homey and you know, historical and the other one's like modern and fun to50600:20:55,080 --> 00:20:56,080climb.50700:20:56,080 --> 00:20:57,080This one's beautiful.50800:20:57,080 --> 00:21:00,360It's, I would love to see it in color, but yeah.50900:21:00,360 --> 00:21:06,120So the image date contradicts the lighthouse friends is my main source for this episode.51000:21:06,120 --> 00:21:07,120They had do a great job.51100:21:07,120 --> 00:21:09,360I love their source.51200:21:09,360 --> 00:21:14,640But they said 1842 is 30 foot here and lighthouse friends had it as 1824.51300:21:14,640 --> 00:21:15,640Okay.51400:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,000So maybe one of the other typo.51500:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,000Yeah.51600:21:19,000 --> 00:21:24,000The lamp at that time was 10 oil lamps that were set in silver bowl shape reflectors.51700:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,000Okay.51800:21:25,000 --> 00:21:29,280So they didn't have a Fresnel lens at that time for now.51900:21:29,280 --> 00:21:30,280Gosh.52000:21:30,280 --> 00:21:31,280Close.52100:21:31,280 --> 00:21:32,840We're still learning.52200:21:32,840 --> 00:21:33,840Yeah.52300:21:33,840 --> 00:21:39,520So it was upgraded to a fourth order revolving Fresnel lens in 1854 and the height was increased52400:21:39,520 --> 00:21:40,520over 50 feet.52500:21:40,520 --> 00:21:41,520There you go.52600:21:41,520 --> 00:21:43,480And then, gosh, another contradiction.52700:21:43,480 --> 00:21:44,480What does it say?52800:21:44,480 --> 00:21:48,3201848, 1848 and it says 40 foot there.52900:21:48,320 --> 00:21:49,6401852 is the final.53000:21:49,640 --> 00:21:50,640Okay.53100:21:50,640 --> 00:21:51,640We're good.53200:21:51,640 --> 00:21:52,640We're up top now.53300:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,800That's the Fresnel lenses placed in this image.53400:21:54,800 --> 00:21:55,800Okay.53500:21:55,800 --> 00:21:56,8001859.53600:21:56,800 --> 00:22:02,440Um, just a moment in history, Joseph and drew a ND REU the fourth.53700:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,160He was the fourth head keeper of the light.53800:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,240He fell 60 feet to his death.53900:22:06,240 --> 00:22:07,240Oh no.54000:22:07,240 --> 00:22:12,480The lashing on the scaffolding he was using gave away while he was whitewashing the tower54100:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,600and he would go on to become one of the ghosts that is hunting.54200:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,600I mean not excellent, but.54300:22:18,600 --> 00:22:19,600Might as well.54400:22:19,600 --> 00:22:21,200Whitewashing, it'll get you.54500:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,040There's a lot of stories of keepers falling.54600:22:24,040 --> 00:22:28,080Scaffolding, lashing, they'll all get you.54700:22:28,080 --> 00:22:34,840His wife Maria, she took over as the keeper and served until it was extinguished shortly54800:22:34,840 --> 00:22:43,000after the outbreak of the Civil War, American Civil War, which was from 1861 to 1865.54900:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,720So also another ghost moment.55000:22:46,720 --> 00:22:52,000Joseph Pesetti, a Confederate soldier, he was wounded while he was trying to remove55100:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,920the lens from the lighthouse in hopes that the union would not make use of the lighthouse55200:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,080as they were going to lose Florida potentially.55300:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,760He was wounded by the lens or by invaders?55400:23:02,760 --> 00:23:03,760By the lens.55500:23:03,760 --> 00:23:07,840He heard himself, but he's another lighthouse fights back.55600:23:07,840 --> 00:23:09,320Yeah, it's like no.55700:23:09,320 --> 00:23:15,640Keep lighting my Fresnel lens must keep spinning.55800:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,680So the tower was deactivated for that period of time.55900:23:18,680 --> 00:23:24,920It was reactivated 1867 after the war and a new lens had to be furnished.56000:23:24,920 --> 00:23:29,760Yeah, because that guy messed up the other one.56100:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,680It was clearly evident that erosion was endangering the lighthouse.56200:23:32,680 --> 00:23:34,000Oh no, here we go again.56300:23:34,000 --> 00:23:39,200On July 1st of 1870, the distance from the keepers dwelling to the high water mark was56400:23:39,200 --> 00:23:41,24070 feet, which is quite a bit.56500:23:41,240 --> 00:23:46,440By November, so this is July to November, the distance had shrunk to just 40 feet.56600:23:46,440 --> 00:23:50,000So the whole landmass was just going.56700:23:50,000 --> 00:23:51,560It wasn't like turning slowly.56800:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,160What was the three sisters?56900:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,440What was that one?57000:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,080Was that up in East Coast for sure?57100:23:58,080 --> 00:24:00,560Yeah, that was Cape Cod area.57200:24:00,560 --> 00:24:01,560Okay.57300:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,400Yeah, they're on edge of a cliff though.57400:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,080That well and that erosion was straight on.57500:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,000I think this erosion was collapsing into the water.57600:24:08,000 --> 00:24:09,000Oh, okay.57700:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,000Wow.57800:24:10,000 --> 00:24:11,000Not good.57900:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,840The lighthouse board determined that a new lighthouse was needed and a five acre tract58000:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,840was located just like half a mile inland.58100:24:18,840 --> 00:24:23,200They acquired it after some old Spanish land grants and claims to settlers were straightened58200:24:23,200 --> 00:24:24,200out.58300:24:24,200 --> 00:24:28,700So more paperwork for the lighthouse board, but they got it done.58400:24:28,700 --> 00:24:32,480The plans were drawn up by a man named Paul Peltz, P-E-L-Z.58500:24:32,480 --> 00:24:37,040He was a chief draftsman of the lighthouse board and he also later would go on to be58600:24:37,040 --> 00:24:40,600one of the two architects that's responsible for the Library of Congress.58700:24:40,600 --> 00:24:41,600Oh my gosh.58800:24:41,600 --> 00:24:42,600Cool.58900:24:42,600 --> 00:24:43,600Yeah.59000:24:43,600 --> 00:24:44,600Very cool.59100:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,600Construction began in 1872 using $60,000.59200:24:47,600 --> 00:24:48,600$60,000?59300:24:48,600 --> 00:24:49,600$60,000.59400:24:49,600 --> 00:24:50,600Holy cow.59500:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,880And then immediately the next year they added $20,000.59600:24:52,880 --> 00:24:53,880Oh yeah.59700:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,880The walls had grown to a height of just a few feet when all the funds were gone.59800:24:57,880 --> 00:24:58,880No.59900:24:58,880 --> 00:24:59,880Yes.60000:24:59,880 --> 00:25:01,640How is that possible?60100:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,400Construction planning has been going well for a long time.60200:25:04,400 --> 00:25:05,640Wow.60300:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,880Did they buy materials with that or?60400:25:07,880 --> 00:25:08,880Mm-hmm.60500:25:08,880 --> 00:25:09,880Okay.60600:25:09,880 --> 00:25:10,880Materials and they hired.60700:25:10,880 --> 00:25:11,880So like labor they ran out.60800:25:11,880 --> 00:25:12,880They signed contracts.60900:25:12,880 --> 00:25:18,880They had an additional $25,000, allowed the work to continue and finally it was done.61000:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,880So the sum is $60,000 plus $20,000 plus $25,000.61100:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,880So $105,000 in 1800s, which sounds like a lot.61200:25:25,880 --> 00:25:26,880Yeah.61300:25:26,880 --> 00:25:28,880In 1874 finally it was re-lit.61400:25:28,880 --> 00:25:29,880Okay.61500:25:29,880 --> 00:25:30,880So.61600:25:30,880 --> 00:25:31,880What kind of lens did they have?61700:25:31,880 --> 00:25:32,880We've been through some things.61800:25:32,880 --> 00:25:34,880Also a fourth order I believe.61900:25:34,880 --> 00:25:35,880Okay.62000:25:35,880 --> 00:25:36,880It's first order now, isn't it?62100:25:36,880 --> 00:25:37,880Yes it is now.62200:25:37,880 --> 00:25:38,880This is the old one we're looking at.62300:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,880The new one, it is a first order lens.62400:25:41,880 --> 00:25:42,880I'm repeating my paragraph, sorry.62500:25:42,880 --> 00:25:43,880Gotcha.62600:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,560It is a first order lens and it's 165 feet tall.62700:25:46,560 --> 00:25:50,880It's the one that is shown today and the day mark is the same as Hatteras.62800:25:50,880 --> 00:25:52,880It is a spiral black and white.62900:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,760So the left image is in 1966.63000:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,880So it's been like 80 or 90 years since it was constructed.63100:25:59,880 --> 00:26:00,880Wow.63200:26:00,880 --> 00:26:02,240The tower at that time.63300:26:02,240 --> 00:26:07,880Within a month of this construction in 1874 a flock of ducks flew into the lantern room.63400:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,280It's always ducks flying.63500:26:11,280 --> 00:26:12,280What are they doing?63600:26:12,280 --> 00:26:13,280Ducks man.63700:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,680They're not, you don't need to do that.63800:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,000They're like ooh a laser beam.63900:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,280Like you're not moths, don't go into the light.64000:26:20,280 --> 00:26:21,440Well they're big moths.64100:26:21,440 --> 00:26:25,680They broke three panes of glass and they caused slight damage to the lens.64200:26:25,680 --> 00:26:26,680Geez.64300:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,120Which would cause it to need to be replaced.64400:26:29,120 --> 00:26:32,520But first a wire screen was installed around the lantern room.64500:26:32,520 --> 00:26:33,520Of course.64600:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,280That was their first move.64700:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,280The tower, the construction is kind of interesting.64800:26:37,280 --> 00:26:42,120The brick came from Alabama, granite for the base came from Georgia, iron all came from64900:26:42,120 --> 00:26:43,120Philadelphia.65000:26:43,120 --> 00:26:44,640So it was a big old deal.65100:26:44,640 --> 00:26:49,120The lens, the new one came from France as well.65200:26:49,120 --> 00:26:55,520It was a fixed white light pattern and every three minutes displayed a white flash.65300:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,480I believe that's the same too today.65400:26:58,480 --> 00:27:03,040165 foot tall to the focal plane.65500:27:03,040 --> 00:27:08,400The focal plane and it was painted of course the black and white spiral bands to match65600:27:08,400 --> 00:27:09,400Cape Hatteras.65700:27:09,400 --> 00:27:10,400Nice.65800:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,440They did it on purpose.65900:27:12,440 --> 00:27:13,440Yeah.66000:27:13,440 --> 00:27:17,800And honestly if you look at the construction, it's pretty similar to Cape Hatteras.66100:27:17,800 --> 00:27:24,240The base octagonal shape and then the really the whole thing looks quite similar to Hatteras.66200:27:24,240 --> 00:27:30,800When I first saw this wine bottle, which is very accurate, good for them, it reminded66300:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,480me of Cape Hatteras.66400:27:32,480 --> 00:27:33,960But you know, only a foot tall.66500:27:33,960 --> 00:27:39,680I thought that they used the same plans for this one, Cape Hatteras.66600:27:39,680 --> 00:27:50,440Maybe they did and my notes are confusing that Mr. Pels also was the architect of Hatteras.66700:27:50,440 --> 00:27:51,440I can't remember.66800:27:51,440 --> 00:27:52,440Okay.66900:27:52,440 --> 00:27:56,640I think that's a big moment we should figure out in Lighthouse history of who was the architect67000:27:56,640 --> 00:28:00,000and maybe it's several people because architects are huge in Lighthouse development.67100:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,920We've talked about often there'll be a nameplate or a plaque.67200:28:02,920 --> 00:28:07,520Like here is the engineer, Lighthouse engineer, which is a cool job title.67300:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,320Here I am just a mechanical engineer.67400:28:10,320 --> 00:28:11,320Measley.67500:28:11,320 --> 00:28:18,160Well, like Bodie Island and Kuretuk were the same plans that they used for the Lighthouse.67600:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,960They're identical except for their different colors.67700:28:21,960 --> 00:28:23,360Scale and Denmark, right?67800:28:23,360 --> 00:28:26,860On the right image, you can see that white building at the base.67900:28:26,860 --> 00:28:32,720That was originally built as a keeper's office on one side and then the other side was large68000:28:32,720 --> 00:28:33,720drums of oil.68100:28:33,720 --> 00:28:35,280Lard oil was the original fuel.68200:28:35,280 --> 00:28:39,560It was converted to kerosene and they had to build a new brick oil house that was safer68300:28:39,560 --> 00:28:40,560or distance away.68400:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,960I assume that's the one on the right, the small shack because kerosene is apparently68500:28:43,960 --> 00:28:49,880a lot more flammable and volatile compared to previous lamp oil.68600:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,240That keeper's dwelling is pretty nice.68700:28:52,240 --> 00:28:53,240It'll come up.68800:28:53,240 --> 00:28:54,720Oh no.68900:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,840While work was underway on the new tower, the Lighthouse board submitted a following69000:28:57,840 --> 00:28:58,840report.69100:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,240I'm going to speak in a fun accent.69200:29:01,240 --> 00:29:05,840A keeper's dwelling will be required as there was not sufficient or proper accommodations69300:29:05,840 --> 00:29:11,560at the old Lighthouse for three keepers, the number required to attend a first order Lighthouse.69400:29:11,560 --> 00:29:15,760And the distance is too great for the new tower to ensure proper attendance, even if69500:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,680the present dwelling was suitable.69600:29:17,680 --> 00:29:22,960So they already got this contract to build this big for the time and still big today,69700:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,200beautiful Lighthouse.69800:29:25,200 --> 00:29:30,800And they're like, we need more money.69900:29:30,800 --> 00:29:31,800I see.70000:29:31,800 --> 00:29:33,560And they wrote so eloquently.70100:29:33,560 --> 00:29:38,240But the original keeper's dwelling was connected to the Lighthouse.70200:29:38,240 --> 00:29:43,280The original keeper's dwelling, not this Lighthouse and the original footprint Lighthouse was70300:29:43,280 --> 00:29:44,280connected.70400:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,560Oh, so they demolished the Lighthouse part.70500:29:46,560 --> 00:29:47,560That tower.70600:29:47,560 --> 00:29:48,560Yeah.70700:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,120That tower is no good, but we could use that house was the original idea.70800:29:51,120 --> 00:29:52,120Oh, I see.70900:29:52,120 --> 00:29:53,120They're saying it's too far away.71000:29:53,120 --> 00:29:54,120It's too far.71100:29:54,120 --> 00:29:55,120Is it in this picture?71200:29:55,120 --> 00:29:56,120It's gone.71300:29:56,120 --> 00:29:57,120Oh, she go.71400:29:57,120 --> 00:29:58,120She's gone.71500:29:58,120 --> 00:29:59,720She went into the water.71600:29:59,720 --> 00:30:00,720Oh, 1875.71700:30:00,720 --> 00:30:01,720Oh, man.71800:30:01,720 --> 00:30:02,720Yeah.71900:30:02,720 --> 00:30:03,720They just let it go.72000:30:03,720 --> 00:30:04,720Yeah.72100:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,920I'll get right to it.72200:30:06,920 --> 00:30:11,320So Congress gave twenty thousand dollars at that request to build to build this new duplex,72300:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,200which is beautiful.72400:30:13,200 --> 00:30:18,120In the meantime, they lived in that dwelling at the old one.72500:30:18,120 --> 00:30:22,280They continued to live there until the duplex was built, finished in 1875.72600:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,080It was 1880s.72700:30:24,080 --> 00:30:28,040Five years later, they watched the old one literally topple into the water.72800:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,000So it was it was within five years.72900:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,600It was actually in the water.73000:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,960So not been very good.73100:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,200So are the ruins just like underwater?73200:30:38,200 --> 00:30:39,200You know, I don't know.73300:30:39,200 --> 00:30:40,200That would be cool.73400:30:40,200 --> 00:30:41,480I've never considered that.73500:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,080Maybe that's part of LAMP.73600:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,560Their archeology, archaeological stuff.73700:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,440I wonder if it wasn't like recovered and put somewhere.73800:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,040I mean, I guess they'd just be stoned.73900:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,360Maybe it went to heck before went in the water.74000:30:54,360 --> 00:31:01,200But as of 1875, when they finished this tower, there were three keepers stationed there.74100:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,240The day was divided into three eight hour watches.74200:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,040You see eight again.74300:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,400The primary responsibility, of course, is caring for the light.74400:31:08,400 --> 00:31:15,520They lugged 30 pound cans of lard oil, kerosene up the 214 stairs.74500:31:15,520 --> 00:31:20,440And periodically, they had to wind the weight, which is 275 pounds in this tower.74600:31:20,440 --> 00:31:21,440Oh, yeah.74700:31:21,440 --> 00:31:26,680That, of course, revolves the lantern mechanism.74800:31:26,680 --> 00:31:31,880They also maintain the buildings, provided tours to visitors, even in those times.74900:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,960And when necessary, they served as lifesavers.75000:31:34,960 --> 00:31:39,680This function is demonstrated by two of the following entries from the station's logbook.75100:31:39,680 --> 00:31:45,920September 23rd of 1887, schooner schooner schooner.75200:31:45,920 --> 00:31:52,760I think it's schooner dream went on the sandbar near old lighthouse at three a.m.75300:31:52,760 --> 00:31:57,440Nine passengers rescued by keepers lost the anchor sails and small boat.75400:31:57,440 --> 00:31:58,440Oh, man.75500:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,840The vessel floated off in damaged condition.75600:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,160The vessel floated off canoe.75700:32:03,160 --> 00:32:04,720Anything about it.75800:32:04,720 --> 00:32:11,520November 13th of 1890, three years later, five p.m. the steamer star spangled banner75900:32:11,520 --> 00:32:12,760foundered on the bar.76000:32:12,760 --> 00:32:13,760A total wreck.76100:32:13,760 --> 00:32:14,760Oh, no.76200:32:14,760 --> 00:32:16,360Crew were rescued by the keeper.76300:32:16,360 --> 00:32:17,360OK.76400:32:17,360 --> 00:32:18,360The keepers are busy.76500:32:18,360 --> 00:32:19,360Yeah.76600:32:19,360 --> 00:32:20,360Busy.76700:32:20,360 --> 00:32:21,760You say three days later.76800:32:21,760 --> 00:32:22,760Yeah.76900:32:22,760 --> 00:32:23,760Three years later.77000:32:23,760 --> 00:32:25,560So why is everyone crashing?77100:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,240That's a lighthouse.77200:32:27,240 --> 00:32:28,400There's a lighthouse.77300:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,800It's a new lighthouse in those years.77400:32:30,800 --> 00:32:32,400They weren't used to it.77500:32:32,400 --> 00:32:37,520It's been there, well, 15 years, roughly 15, 20 years at that time.77600:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,960But I think information moved a lot slower in the 1800s.77700:32:40,960 --> 00:32:44,720And also these could be storm conditions.77800:32:44,720 --> 00:32:46,360One was September and one was November.77900:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,160So not, you know, the nicest.78000:32:49,160 --> 00:32:50,160One of them also was three a.m.78100:32:50,160 --> 00:32:51,160Windy and stormy.78200:32:51,160 --> 00:32:52,160Yeah.78300:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,240Of course, we hear this a lot about lighthouses.78400:32:54,240 --> 00:32:59,240The effects of a powerful earthquake rocked Charleston, South Carolina, which is kind of78500:32:59,240 --> 00:33:00,240nearby.78600:33:00,240 --> 00:33:01,240What year is that?78700:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,4001886.78800:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,320The effects were felt in St. Augustine.78900:33:06,320 --> 00:33:07,000William A.79000:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,080Horn provided an entry in the notebook.79100:33:10,080 --> 00:33:14,400I'm not going to read it because it's it is interesting, but we've heard a lot of them.79200:33:14,400 --> 00:33:15,400Yeah.79300:33:15,400 --> 00:33:16,400Dogs barked.79400:33:16,400 --> 00:33:17,400There was a big boom.79500:33:17,400 --> 00:33:18,400The tower swayed.79600:33:18,400 --> 00:33:19,400Oh, yeah.79700:33:19,400 --> 00:33:20,400So not good.79800:33:20,400 --> 00:33:26,960I don't mean to minimize it, but it wasn't, you know, what was the one in 1904?79900:33:26,960 --> 00:33:27,960In San Francisco?80000:33:27,960 --> 00:33:28,960I think so.80100:33:28,960 --> 00:33:29,960That was like the city was on fire.80200:33:29,960 --> 00:33:30,960Yeah.80300:33:30,960 --> 00:33:31,960And it was toppled.80400:33:31,960 --> 00:33:38,040It wasn't that extent, but still quite exciting for the man who was in charge of a tower.80500:33:38,040 --> 00:33:42,760Swaying buildings are it's the most uncomfortable feeling.80600:33:42,760 --> 00:33:46,160Like when you're like when you're in a really, really tall building and it's windy and you80700:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,280can just feel that it's very slightly moving.80800:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,280It's like, why are you doing that?80900:33:50,280 --> 00:33:51,280Yeah, very scary.81000:33:51,280 --> 00:33:52,880Here's a fun piece of history.81100:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,920I feel like I've heard this somewhere else.81200:33:55,920 --> 00:33:59,960Life at the station was full of varied activities for the Keepers children.81300:33:59,960 --> 00:34:06,480One noted story involves Cardell Cracker Daniels, son of Keeper Cardell D. Daniels.81400:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,880I was like, that can't be right.81500:34:08,880 --> 00:34:15,440Cracker would regularly use the tall tower in the brickyard as a launching pad for his81600:34:15,440 --> 00:34:16,920model airplanes and parachutes.81700:34:16,920 --> 00:34:18,880Oh, that would be cool.81800:34:18,880 --> 00:34:23,480After safely parachuting several inanimate objects off the tower, Cracker decided it81900:34:23,480 --> 00:34:25,160was time for a live experiment.82000:34:25,160 --> 00:34:26,160The cat.82100:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,600Cracker's sister Wilma had a cat named Smokey.82200:34:28,600 --> 00:34:29,600Yes.82300:34:29,600 --> 00:34:30,600She was selected as the paratrooper.82400:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,040Didn't this happen somewhere else?82500:34:32,040 --> 00:34:33,040No, no.82600:34:33,040 --> 00:34:40,600I covered this incident because Smokey lives at the lighthouse now as a ghost, as a ghostly82700:34:40,600 --> 00:34:41,600cat.82800:34:41,600 --> 00:34:42,600Very nice.82900:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,320I covered it in I think last year's Halloween episode.83000:34:44,320 --> 00:34:45,320OK.83100:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,360I was going to say, I've heard this before.83200:34:47,360 --> 00:34:48,360It's been a year.83300:34:48,360 --> 00:34:49,360OK.83400:34:49,360 --> 00:34:50,360The cat didn't die with the parachute.83500:34:50,360 --> 00:34:51,360It did not die.83600:34:51,360 --> 00:34:52,360Yeah.83700:34:52,360 --> 00:34:57,920But God, those kids would get a thrashing if like you just threw our cat.83800:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,800He never told anyone.83900:34:59,800 --> 00:35:00,800Watch.84000:35:00,800 --> 00:35:01,800Eventually he did.84100:35:01,800 --> 00:35:06,720After a couple of practice descents from lesser heights, the poor cat, the reluctant cat was84200:35:06,720 --> 00:35:11,440tossed from the top of the tower with the parachute strapped to its back.84300:35:11,440 --> 00:35:15,160When the frightened feline reached the ground, it bolted from the area.84400:35:15,160 --> 00:35:19,600Unaware of Cracker's antics, Wilma searched far and near for her cat over the next several84500:35:19,600 --> 00:35:20,600days.84600:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,680A month passed by before Smokey finally returned home.84700:35:23,680 --> 00:35:27,600But it wasn't until several years later that the family learned the reason for the cat's84800:35:27,600 --> 00:35:28,600death.84900:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,920It ran off with a parachute still attached to him.85000:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,920I guess a month of lugging around.85100:35:33,920 --> 00:35:34,920It was awfully persistent.85200:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,000I bet it got out.85300:35:37,000 --> 00:35:42,520The Keepers dwelling was electrified in the year 1925, but the tower was not wired up85400:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,100until 1936.85500:35:44,100 --> 00:35:48,240So during that time, they had electricity in the tower and the Keepers duplex there,85600:35:48,240 --> 00:35:49,240which looks really nice.85700:35:49,240 --> 00:35:50,400It's still there.85800:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,400And then but the tower was still running on oil.85900:35:53,400 --> 00:35:54,680OK.86000:35:54,680 --> 00:35:56,640So you know that that helped out.86100:35:56,640 --> 00:36:00,480But the eventually 1936, it was electrified.86200:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,180De-staffing happened in 1955.86300:36:03,180 --> 00:36:05,400But there were still local people who would come check on it.86400:36:05,400 --> 00:36:06,800They didn't have they just didn't have to live there.86500:36:06,800 --> 00:36:07,800It wasn't full time.86600:36:07,800 --> 00:36:08,800Yeah.86700:36:08,800 --> 00:36:09,800They're called lamp lighters.86800:36:09,800 --> 00:36:14,840Well, they didn't have Coast Guard people working.86900:36:14,840 --> 00:36:15,840Not yet.87000:36:15,840 --> 00:36:16,840Civilian Keepers.87100:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,040Oh, yep.87200:36:18,040 --> 00:36:24,080I think they were actually volunteers, but they would, you know, polish the lens.87300:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,120They'd switch on and off the light and then.87400:36:27,120 --> 00:36:28,120Yeah.87500:36:28,120 --> 00:36:29,120Oh, it wasn't automated.87600:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,960That's why the light was not automated, even though it was electric.87700:36:31,960 --> 00:36:32,960So they still had people.87800:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,880The lamp lighters would come even though there was no fuel oil being burned.87900:36:36,880 --> 00:36:40,040So automation occurred in 1971.88000:36:40,040 --> 00:36:41,800They put a solar beacon on top.88100:36:41,800 --> 00:36:46,440So it would sense when the light needs to be on and off, which I I've never really thought88200:36:46,440 --> 00:36:47,440about that.88300:36:47,440 --> 00:36:51,680Like how that is it clockwork or digital or wireless signal?88400:36:51,680 --> 00:36:59,160I have a note to cover automation in a history buoy, but it's kind of seems like it would88500:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,280be a lot of work to research.88600:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,240So I haven't gotten around to doing that yet.88700:37:04,240 --> 00:37:05,240It'll be big.88800:37:05,240 --> 00:37:07,680It's going to be huge.88900:37:07,680 --> 00:37:08,680Huge.89000:37:08,680 --> 00:37:14,520Unfortunately, in the late 1960s, the dwelling was boarded up, was declared surplus and put89100:37:14,520 --> 00:37:15,520on the auction block.89200:37:15,520 --> 00:37:16,520Oh, no.89300:37:16,520 --> 00:37:20,240So the St. John's County is the county in which is located.89400:37:20,240 --> 00:37:25,200They were negotiating the purchase price of the dwelling when it was completely gutted89500:37:25,200 --> 00:37:26,760by an arson fire.89600:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,400July 28th of 1970.89700:37:29,400 --> 00:37:33,760The fire did reduce the purchase price, but may be restoring the structure, a daunting89800:37:33,760 --> 00:37:34,760task.89900:37:34,760 --> 00:37:35,760Yeah.90000:37:35,760 --> 00:37:39,960The county considered tearing it down and a group called the Junior Service League of90100:37:39,960 --> 00:37:44,840St. Augustine, which is found in 1935 by a group of women interested in improving social,90200:37:44,840 --> 00:37:48,000educational and cultural conditions of St. John's County.90300:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,660They offered to take on the restoration in 1980.90400:37:50,660 --> 00:37:52,920So it sat for a while.90500:37:52,920 --> 00:37:58,800But what they did is awesome because starting in 1980 at a pretty much decrepit arson condition,90600:37:58,800 --> 00:37:59,800it started to be restored.90700:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,800Eight years later, it was opened as the Maritime Museum.90800:38:02,800 --> 00:38:03,800Oh, my.90900:38:03,800 --> 00:38:04,800Wait, you say eight years?91000:38:04,800 --> 00:38:05,8001989.91100:38:05,800 --> 00:38:06,800That took a long time.91200:38:06,800 --> 00:38:07,800Do they know?91300:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,640Do they find out who started the fire?91400:38:10,640 --> 00:38:11,640No.91500:38:11,640 --> 00:38:12,640Could be ghosts.91600:38:12,640 --> 00:38:16,920Could be someone who was involved with they wanted to purchase it or didn't want it sold.91700:38:16,920 --> 00:38:22,320No ghost would no ghost would burn down their old house.91800:38:22,320 --> 00:38:27,520Well, a lot of energy for them to conjure up a little flame.91900:38:27,520 --> 00:38:28,520Yeah.92000:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,000Well, Sparky Boys 1990.92100:38:31,000 --> 00:38:35,880So just a year later, the Junior Service League, they signed a lease with a Coast Guard for92200:38:35,880 --> 00:38:36,880the lighthouse.92300:38:36,880 --> 00:38:41,280And the following year equipped with safety features, the lighthouse itself was opened92400:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,120again to the public for climbing.92500:38:43,120 --> 00:38:47,040So it was it was open really early on, which I don't hear about often.92600:38:47,040 --> 00:38:51,880Yeah, like tours were provided by the original keepers here and then not available for a92700:38:51,880 --> 00:38:52,880long time.92800:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,760And then once they upgraded safety features, like you can see on the new tower, the railing92900:38:56,760 --> 00:38:57,760is really good.93000:38:57,760 --> 00:38:58,760Yes.93100:38:58,760 --> 00:39:02,120You know, it's clearly built for visitors in 1986.93200:39:02,120 --> 00:39:08,480So during we'll call it modern times, a bullet was shot from a 30-06 rifle that shattered93300:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,80019 prisms in the historical Fresnel lens.93400:39:11,800 --> 00:39:13,400Who the hell did that?93500:39:13,400 --> 00:39:17,400Frank Mears, who was a caretaker of the light at that time.93600:39:17,400 --> 00:39:18,400Why did he shoot the light?93700:39:18,400 --> 00:39:19,400He didn't shoot it.93800:39:19,400 --> 00:39:20,400He called the FBI.93900:39:20,400 --> 00:39:21,400What?94000:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,880He said, my tower has been shot.94100:39:24,880 --> 00:39:26,540He called the FBI.94200:39:26,540 --> 00:39:31,520They did an investigation and found powder burns from a rifle on a nearby palm tree.94300:39:31,520 --> 00:39:32,520So who did it?94400:39:32,520 --> 00:39:36,640Eventually, they found the 14 year old responsible for the shooting.94500:39:36,640 --> 00:39:41,520But the senseless act led to the lens being taken out of commission in September 1991.94600:39:41,520 --> 00:39:42,840He needs to go to prison.94700:39:42,840 --> 00:39:43,840That lens.94800:39:43,840 --> 00:39:50,040So he probably took his dad's rifle and shot at a light because it's something he's 14.94900:39:50,040 --> 00:39:51,040He's an idiot.95000:39:51,040 --> 00:39:52,040Yeah, he is.95100:39:52,040 --> 00:39:53,040And he's like, look at this.95200:39:53,040 --> 00:39:54,040I'm going to shoot at this.95300:39:54,040 --> 00:39:55,040Oh.95400:39:55,040 --> 00:39:57,280So do you know how expensive that is?95500:39:57,280 --> 00:39:58,280I know.95600:39:58,280 --> 00:39:59,280I know.95700:39:59,280 --> 00:40:00,280It was expensive.95800:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,640So the light was out of commission and the airport beacon was placed on the tower at95900:40:03,640 --> 00:40:08,72091 on top of the tower above the lantern room.96000:40:08,720 --> 00:40:10,000Thank goodness.96100:40:10,000 --> 00:40:14,280They balanced options of removing the lens or trying to repair it in place.96200:40:14,280 --> 00:40:20,520Fortunately, there was a grant obtained and they replaced the prisms and bullseye panel,96300:40:20,520 --> 00:40:24,320one bullseye panel, and it resumed operation 93.96400:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,520So two years went by of this restoration in place.96500:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,640What were the repercussions for this guy's actions?96600:40:29,640 --> 00:40:30,640I don't know.96700:40:30,640 --> 00:40:31,640That's the end of that story.96800:40:31,640 --> 00:40:32,640He needs to pay.96900:40:32,640 --> 00:40:33,64014 year old.97000:40:33,640 --> 00:40:34,640He needs to pay.97100:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,640The gun better be locked up.97200:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,240They're shooting rifles at lighthouses.97300:40:40,240 --> 00:40:42,240I know.97400:40:42,240 --> 00:40:43,880How much was it to replace this piece?97500:40:43,880 --> 00:40:44,880It's like a million dollars.97600:40:44,880 --> 00:40:45,880There was a grant.97700:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,840I think it was a private private cost, not publicly published.97800:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,720I'm pissed off.97900:40:52,720 --> 00:40:55,440I'm pissed, royally pissed.98000:40:55,440 --> 00:40:56,440I hope you learned.98100:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,120Somebody should have taught him a lesson.98200:40:58,120 --> 00:40:59,760Well, they kept it on display.98300:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,640They could throw him out the top of the lighthouse with a parachute.98400:41:03,640 --> 00:41:04,640Boy.98500:41:04,640 --> 00:41:05,640So we're not there yet.98600:41:05,640 --> 00:41:10,520The bargain 93 was that repair 98.98700:41:10,520 --> 00:41:15,400There was a so the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum was incorporated as a separate98800:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,280entity away from the junior service league.98900:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,160They grew it into what it was.99000:41:19,160 --> 00:41:23,640So there's a new visitor center that was added in 2000, which is really new in lighthouse99100:41:23,640 --> 00:41:24,640history.99200:41:24,640 --> 00:41:25,640It's awesome.99300:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,440It accommodates large crowds that come to the lighthouse and climate.99400:41:28,440 --> 00:41:29,440The lighthouse itself.99500:41:29,440 --> 00:41:34,840The tower was awarded a St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum in 2002 under the provisions of99600:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,800the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act.99700:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,400So it's all kind of incorporating in the 2000s.99800:41:41,400 --> 00:41:47,800But the reason that I say all that and I include it today is when you see that awesome website,99900:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,440when you see it's a Smithsonian affiliate, when you talk to the people who actually answer100000:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,520emails, which is super nice.100100:41:53,520 --> 00:41:55,720Thanks, Emma.100200:41:55,720 --> 00:41:56,720It's really great.100300:41:56,720 --> 00:42:01,360And it's like, you know, it's a 15,000 people live here.100400:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,200It's not a huge city.100500:42:03,200 --> 00:42:08,320And people, I bet you most people who go visit as tourists at least once go see this lighthouse.100600:42:08,320 --> 00:42:13,720Yeah, so I don't have those numbers, but it's a really as far as we're concerned with talking100700:42:13,720 --> 00:42:18,400about lighthouse history, but also one of our branches is tourism of lighthouses.100800:42:18,400 --> 00:42:19,400This is this looks awesome.100900:42:19,400 --> 00:42:20,400I'd love to go.101000:42:20,400 --> 00:42:26,740You know, looking at this picture, I'm thinking this may have used body islands design plans101100:42:26,740 --> 00:42:30,760as these features because of the little entrance house at the bottom.101200:42:30,760 --> 00:42:34,120Yeah, well, Cape Hatteras is on a big platform down here.101300:42:34,120 --> 00:42:35,920Yeah, a red platform.101400:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,160And it doesn't have that little house connected.101500:42:38,160 --> 00:42:42,840But but both Kuretuk and body do.101600:42:42,840 --> 00:42:46,400And these are I think originally these are like fuel storage, these structures.101700:42:46,400 --> 00:42:50,240And then they added the they enclosed it here.101800:42:50,240 --> 00:42:54,920If you look at some of our other of our older pictures, maybe it was always connected.101900:42:54,920 --> 00:42:56,920I can't see the backside of that right image.102000:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,340I think it was a plan to have it connected.102100:42:59,340 --> 00:43:02,240Before we continue, I'm going to take a second to go back to those wine bottles.102200:43:02,240 --> 00:43:03,240Oh, yeah.102300:43:03,240 --> 00:43:07,760So I got to tell you, $25 is the listed price.102400:43:07,760 --> 00:43:11,000I don't remember what I've paid for it, where I have found it, because I never ordered it102500:43:11,000 --> 00:43:12,000from their website.102600:43:12,000 --> 00:43:13,480But St. Sebastian winery.102700:43:13,480 --> 00:43:15,320So it's it's in St. Augustine.102800:43:15,320 --> 00:43:19,000They've got a rooftop bar for they've got like sandwiches and hors d'oeuvres.102900:43:19,000 --> 00:43:20,960They have live music up there.103000:43:20,960 --> 00:43:22,540They've got several wines.103100:43:22,540 --> 00:43:26,480This is what's actually in the bottle is a wine they make called Vintner's Red, which103200:43:26,480 --> 00:43:29,280is I think, like $15.103300:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,740So the very tasty you can get it in this.103400:43:31,740 --> 00:43:32,740It is really good.103500:43:32,740 --> 00:43:37,320We've had it, especially our lighthouse cocktail episode, the cocktail hour.103600:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,400We tried this in a drink that I made up.103700:43:39,400 --> 00:43:40,740But it's a sweet red.103800:43:40,740 --> 00:43:43,160It's really drinkable.103900:43:43,160 --> 00:43:44,160This is not sponsored.104000:43:44,160 --> 00:43:45,440I wish it was.104100:43:45,440 --> 00:43:50,760But if you want to give somebody who's in the lighthouse as a gift, this is a cool bottle.104200:43:50,760 --> 00:43:51,760It's attainable.104300:43:51,760 --> 00:43:52,760Twenty five bucks.104400:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,220I mean, the Vintner's Red is cheaper.104500:43:54,220 --> 00:43:57,000So the the glass costs you something right.104600:43:57,000 --> 00:44:01,480But right on the on the bottle and it's not even on the website, it says a portion of104700:44:01,480 --> 00:44:09,240the proceeds are donated to the first light maritime society who is dedicated to discovering,104800:44:09,240 --> 00:44:15,480preserving, presenting and keeping alive the story of our nation's oldest port, St. Augustine104900:44:15,480 --> 00:44:16,480Lighthouse.105000:44:16,480 --> 00:44:17,480And it's got a really cool image on it.105100:44:17,480 --> 00:44:21,920Even if you don't like wine, I am not a wine person and I enjoyed it.105200:44:21,920 --> 00:44:26,920And also you can just keep it like it's just it's a very neat little.105300:44:26,920 --> 00:44:28,720It's a conversation starter.105400:44:28,720 --> 00:44:29,720Yeah.105500:44:29,720 --> 00:44:33,160So we've got one unopened and one empty that we still have.105600:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,080So their website's cool.105700:44:35,080 --> 00:44:39,680I got the idea or I got the idea from someone else to cut a little hole in the side and105800:44:39,680 --> 00:44:41,640make it into make them into lamps.105900:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,080Oh, that's a good idea.106000:44:43,080 --> 00:44:44,080Yeah.106100:44:44,080 --> 00:44:47,960Either fill them with like fairy lights or run a cord through the top and put a lampshade106200:44:47,960 --> 00:44:48,960on top.106300:44:48,960 --> 00:44:49,960Yeah.106400:44:49,960 --> 00:44:50,960That'd be cool.106500:44:50,960 --> 00:44:54,520We wanted to get crazy.106600:44:54,520 --> 00:44:59,480Just on Google, you can see the top things to do in this is a really cool time to visit106700:44:59,480 --> 00:45:00,760our farm.106800:45:00,760 --> 00:45:02,640This is a national monument slash Fort.106900:45:02,640 --> 00:45:04,240I want to go there.107000:45:04,240 --> 00:45:07,360The castles, Castillo, San Marcos.107100:45:07,360 --> 00:45:10,920I shouldn't try the litner museum.107200:45:10,920 --> 00:45:14,320So this is I believe this is the one it was.107300:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,000It's a university today.107400:45:16,000 --> 00:45:20,520It's also at one point it was a hotel, like a grand hotel.107500:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,080So if you look at like aerial photos, it's really cool.107600:45:23,080 --> 00:45:25,840Pirate Treasure Museum, Archeological.107700:45:25,840 --> 00:45:30,520Pirate and Treasure Museum.107800:45:30,520 --> 00:45:34,120We missed out on getting to go to a pirate museum when we traveled.107900:45:34,120 --> 00:45:35,480Which one?108000:45:35,480 --> 00:45:41,320It was we were going to go to it on our way out to Ocracoke and it said permanently closed.108100:45:41,320 --> 00:45:42,320Oh man, I forgot about that.108200:45:42,320 --> 00:45:45,320It was the day of that I was like we can we can we can make time.108300:45:45,320 --> 00:45:46,320It was like Blackbeard's.108400:45:46,320 --> 00:45:47,320Right.108500:45:47,320 --> 00:45:48,320Yeah.108600:45:48,320 --> 00:45:51,320Right next to the ferry and oh, wasn't it?108700:45:51,320 --> 00:45:52,320Ocracoke.108800:45:52,320 --> 00:45:53,320It was on Ocracoke.108900:45:53,320 --> 00:45:54,320It was on Ocracoke.109000:45:54,320 --> 00:45:55,320Yeah.109100:45:55,320 --> 00:46:00,080But St. Augustine, the lighthouse and maritime museums up there in the top six things to109200:46:00,080 --> 00:46:01,080do.109300:46:01,080 --> 00:46:02,560Actually, I think it's listed as number one.109400:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,120Just this image is from Google.109500:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,120There's a distillery.109600:46:06,120 --> 00:46:08,480You know, cathedral distillery.109700:46:08,480 --> 00:46:13,240But I think it's Anastasia State Park is the island where it's on the island where the109800:46:13,240 --> 00:46:14,240lighthouse is.109900:46:14,240 --> 00:46:16,040So it's supposed to be beautiful.110000:46:16,040 --> 00:46:19,120So this is a video that we're going to watch now.110100:46:19,120 --> 00:46:20,120OK.110200:46:20,120 --> 00:46:25,000I don't know how we're going to handle the audio in the episode, so we can add it or110300:46:25,000 --> 00:46:29,120as the nation's oldest city, it only makes sense that St. Augustine would also have some110400:46:29,120 --> 00:46:32,080of the country's oldest ghost stories.110500:46:32,080 --> 00:46:35,640One of the most haunted spots is said to be the historic lighthouse.110600:46:35,640 --> 00:46:39,720Mr. Jackson Porter, Aaron Farrar, visited the nearly 150 year old landmark and he talked110700:46:39,720 --> 00:46:44,080with people who work there every day dealing with the paranormal.110800:46:44,080 --> 00:46:49,120Two hundred nineteen steps all the way up to this observation deck of the lighthouse.110900:46:49,120 --> 00:46:54,480We're about 140 feet in the air, but it's what's happened for years below us that really111000:46:54,480 --> 00:46:59,280adds to the spooky season.111100:46:59,280 --> 00:47:04,800Guests wander around these hallowed halls of the St. Augustine Lighthouse, now 148 years111200:47:04,800 --> 00:47:05,800old.111300:47:05,800 --> 00:47:10,960Sammy Washburn, who gives dark of the moon tours year round, says there are other visitors111400:47:10,960 --> 00:47:11,960among them.111500:47:11,960 --> 00:47:12,960Ghosts.111600:47:12,960 --> 00:47:16,800Washburn says she's witnessed some of that paranormal activity.111700:47:16,800 --> 00:47:21,360They'll open and close windows when they aren't supposed to be open or closed.111800:47:21,360 --> 00:47:26,600That's a typical act of this shadowy figure who Washburn says is one of the more popular111900:47:26,600 --> 00:47:27,600ghosts.112000:47:27,600 --> 00:47:35,520It might be a former lighthouse keeper who also picks up and drops this bucket.112100:47:35,520 --> 00:47:40,060Bobby Dye with the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum believes those experiences112200:47:40,060 --> 00:47:41,960can catch people off guard.112300:47:41,960 --> 00:47:46,320There's a level of shock any time they experience, you know, something paranormal here on the112400:47:46,320 --> 00:47:47,320grounds.112500:47:47,320 --> 00:47:51,840Washburn has been giving tours here for six years, and sometimes things just get really112600:47:51,840 --> 00:47:52,840creepy.112700:47:52,840 --> 00:47:54,680Like the time she was locked inside the lighthouse.112800:47:54,680 --> 00:47:58,080It was definitely one of those like jaw dropping.112900:47:58,080 --> 00:47:59,800I can't believe this is happening.113000:47:59,800 --> 00:48:00,800How do we get out?113100:48:00,800 --> 00:48:04,560Thankfully, I had a fellow staff member with me who was willing to climb out of a side113200:48:04,560 --> 00:48:07,400window and unlock the door.113300:48:07,400 --> 00:48:10,820Things change when these guests have those paranormal encounters.113400:48:10,820 --> 00:48:15,200People sometimes say they're struggling to climb to the top of the lighthouse, and then113500:48:15,200 --> 00:48:20,080all of a sudden they'll feel like a hand on their back kind of guiding them up to the113600:48:20,080 --> 00:48:22,400top of the lighthouse.113700:48:22,400 --> 00:48:26,800Washburn credits that to this ghost, Maria Andrew, who is dressed in white and is one113800:48:26,800 --> 00:48:31,480of the only ghosts she says appears in full body apparition.113900:48:31,480 --> 00:48:35,840Maria was the wife of a keeper of the old lighthouse who fell to his death.114000:48:35,840 --> 00:48:39,560Then there's Peter Rasmussen, one of Washburn's favorite ghosts.114100:48:39,560 --> 00:48:44,800He was the longest serving lighthouse keeper, 23 years on the job in the early 1900s.114200:48:44,800 --> 00:48:50,720Washburn says he sends a cherry tobacco scent throughout the entire lighthouse, especially114300:48:50,720 --> 00:48:52,920when another guest insults him.114400:48:52,920 --> 00:48:55,040Washburn says that's happened before.114500:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,680He called Peter stupid.114600:48:57,680 --> 00:49:03,220And as we were exiting the room that we were in, he stopped right in the doorway.114700:49:03,220 --> 00:49:06,960And I went back to check on him and I got to the other side of the doorway.114800:49:06,960 --> 00:49:10,960And there was just this whiff of cherry tobacco, like someone had walked through the doorway114900:49:10,960 --> 00:49:12,260in between us.115000:49:12,260 --> 00:49:16,080So I think that was Peter just letting this guy know, hey, I've got my eye on you.115100:49:16,080 --> 00:49:17,300Don't insult me again.115200:49:17,300 --> 00:49:22,400The reactions of these mysterious encounters vary, but those who underestimate them, Washburn115300:49:22,400 --> 00:49:23,980says, are the best.115400:49:23,980 --> 00:49:28,080Those are kind of my favorites because they're usually the ones who are like, I'll be fine.115500:49:28,080 --> 00:49:31,120Ghosts could talk to me, ghosts could touch me, I'd be good.115600:49:31,120 --> 00:49:34,120But then they actually have something happen and they're like, all right, I'm done, I'm115700:49:34,120 --> 00:49:35,120out.115800:49:35,120 --> 00:49:36,120So what would you do?115900:49:36,120 --> 00:49:42,800Reporting in St. Augustine, I'm Aaron for our channel four, The Local Station.116000:49:42,800 --> 00:49:43,800Hello.116100:49:43,800 --> 00:49:44,800Kind of neat.116200:49:44,800 --> 00:49:52,680For people not watching the video, they keep showing this picture of a black form hanging116300:49:52,680 --> 00:49:56,720over the railing, staring down at whoever is taking the picture.116400:49:56,720 --> 00:49:58,000And I think I've heard of that.116500:49:58,000 --> 00:50:04,840Was it like ghost hunters or whatever, ghost busters or something?116600:50:04,840 --> 00:50:08,800I've heard the people are that go and film and stuff, ghost hunters or something.116700:50:08,800 --> 00:50:10,800They talk about that.116800:50:10,800 --> 00:50:14,960Yeah, like you can't see them and then you take a picture and there's a flash.116900:50:14,960 --> 00:50:15,960I hate that.117000:50:15,960 --> 00:50:16,960It gives me goosebumps.117100:50:16,960 --> 00:50:21,560She was also, I didn't notice until this time when I watched it, her shirt, I pointed at117200:50:21,560 --> 00:50:22,560when we were watching.117300:50:22,560 --> 00:50:26,480It has the lighthouse, like the lantern room and then a little ghost peeking out from around117400:50:26,480 --> 00:50:27,480the side in the graphic.117500:50:27,480 --> 00:50:28,480Thank you.117600:50:28,480 --> 00:50:29,480So cool.117700:50:29,480 --> 00:50:33,840So that's the main body of our research today.117800:50:33,840 --> 00:50:38,880And then I wanted to once again thank the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum117900:50:38,880 --> 00:50:40,880for their permission to check out the website.118000:50:40,880 --> 00:50:44,200Let's see what else I got on here.118100:50:44,200 --> 00:50:45,280That's it.118200:50:45,280 --> 00:50:46,280So St. Augustine, Florida.118300:50:46,280 --> 00:50:47,280That's a good one.118400:50:47,280 --> 00:50:49,840They've been on the list for a long time.118500:50:49,840 --> 00:50:50,840Lots of history.118600:50:50,840 --> 00:50:51,840It's so old.118700:50:51,840 --> 00:50:54,380Well, and I've condensed some things.118800:50:54,380 --> 00:50:55,720I'm sure there's more.118900:50:55,720 --> 00:50:59,360There's a lot that I didn't include that, you know, kind of general things that we've119000:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,440covered at other lighthouses.119100:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,880Just covering things that are unique about this one, there's still quite a bit of quite119200:51:05,880 --> 00:51:07,520a bit of stories to tell.119300:51:07,520 --> 00:51:12,400So it'd be a fun place to go visit because there's so much other history.119400:51:12,400 --> 00:51:15,640Like the lighthouse can be a part of your trip.119500:51:15,640 --> 00:51:16,640Yeah.119600:51:16,640 --> 00:51:17,640Yeah.119700:51:17,640 --> 00:51:18,640Jacksonville, Orlando, I'm pretty sure.119800:51:18,640 --> 00:51:20,680I think it's like an hour and a half.119900:51:20,680 --> 00:51:21,680I don't know.120000:51:21,680 --> 00:51:25,440I could spend probably a week there and you could probably spend a weekend there or a120100:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,000day and you'd have a good time.120200:51:27,000 --> 00:51:31,840So I'm caught between wanting to do a trip next year where we visit a bunch of lighthouses120300:51:31,840 --> 00:51:36,800like Cape Cod where they make it really easy or visiting someplace like this that has a120400:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,440ton of history and other stuff to go look at.120500:51:39,440 --> 00:51:40,440Yeah.120600:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,160Well, it's a good problem.120700:51:42,160 --> 00:51:44,720We've got good contacts in a couple of locations.120800:51:44,720 --> 00:51:45,720Yeah, that's true.120900:51:45,720 --> 00:51:50,240Mostly the Bahamas is one that is always tempting to go see there.121000:51:50,240 --> 00:51:52,520So yeah, thank you, everybody.121100:51:52,520 --> 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