Episode 83 - Sapelo Island Lighthouse

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Hi everybody, I'm Emily. And I'm Vince. And this

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is The Lighthouse Lowdown. Nice. Correct my chair.

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Happy Wednesday for us. Thursday. Yeah, Thursday.

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Yeah, nice. Almost Friday. I don't even know

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what day it is. My Garmin watch is having me

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do lots of arm circles, which has made my neck

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very stiff. But I'm ready for the podcast. All

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right. Any questions before we start? About what?

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I don't know, my day, how it's going. Oh, for

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the audience. So I was listening to another podcast

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and they were talking about how you should include

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all of your flaws because it builds credibility.

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Oh, yeah. It's one way to, you know, clearly

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we're kind of goofy and it does or doesn't work

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sometimes. And the fact that we have so much

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out there that's... Of a more natural conversation

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quality. Yeah. Supposedly it builds some type

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of trustworthiness. Yeah. Yeah, I understand

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that. That's why all of our intros are the way

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they are, in case you were wondering. Well, you

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always want people to be real. You don't want

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them to be like. Yeah, but they're not. Like

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most of the time they're not. Most productions,

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most podcasts, most shows, most radio. Only trimmed,

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only polished. Anyways. Yeah, well, I think if

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I were trying to communicate that I was well

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-respected and very knowledgeable on the subject,

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I wouldn't want to... You would speak with an

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English accent. That's a good one. History buoy.

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I have one. What episode? What episode? 83. 83.

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Welcome. Why did you decide to cut into my groove

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like that? What is a history buoy in case we

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have new listeners? We don't. No, I'm just kidding.

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We have new subscribers every week. Thank you

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all on YouTube. Oh, yeah. I saw a couple of them

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come in. I get emails. It's just a little blip.

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Maybe something related to the episode. Maybe

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something not. Just something fun to give a little

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information about. I like it. The history buoy.

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We've got to warm up before we start the lighthouse.

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That's right. So we have a history buoy. Let's

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float this thing. Speaking of floating, we're

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going to do an extension of our history buoy

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from last time, which was life -saving stations.

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And we missed a category because there were only

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two stations within this category. And I think

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it's important that we give this category its

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screen time as well as the more well -known versions.

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So today we're going to cover floating. Life

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-saving stations. Cool. Which was a very special

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small category, two stations, and I'm going to

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talk very briefly about each of them. All right.

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So, like I said last episode, we talked about

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the kinds of U .S. life -saving service stations,

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but this was the one that we did not talk about

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because it's only got a couple members. There

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was two floating life -saving stations in the

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United States, one in, is it Louisville, Kentucky?

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Yeah, Louisville. Louisville, Kentucky, and one

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in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. The Kentucky

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one was an inland floating life -saving station

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called the Ohio River Life -Saving Station No.

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10. I don't know much about if they all had numbers.

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Yeah, I don't remember any other life -saving

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station having a number connected to it, so I'm

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not sure why specifically this one had a number.

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But it was stationed at the falls of the Ohio

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River, which I read was the only obstruction

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in the entire length. of the ohio river was this

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one area that was just had falls so i don't know

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if that's still true today you know like i don't

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know i would kind of i'd bet so that's kind of

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cool but apparently it's two and a half miles

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of white water rapids so it had to be marked

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with something and so i pulled up a photo they

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have of the plans when they were drawing up they

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kind of showed this obstruction in the river

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and like what the flow looked like and how they

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were gonna And then we have a picture here of

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the life -saving station. It looks like a paddle

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wheel boat. It does. It looks like a steamboat.

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What was that movie? Murder on the Nile? Oh,

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yeah. Death on the Nile? Death on the Nile. Something

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like that. Mystery movie film, which was also

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a book, I think. Yes. But that type of boat,

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if you want to look that up. Same as Murder on

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the Orient Express, right? The same author. Yeah.

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Very good movie. Different boat. Oh, and there

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was one with a ghost or something. I don't know.

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Yeah, yeah. I wouldn't be able to remember. We

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saw it in theaters. Ghost of Venice or something.

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Murder and... I can't remember. Anyways. Anyway,

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yes. Same vibes. Which is probably, they took

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some, probably took some, what is it called?

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Inspiration. Yes, inspiration for this from...

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what they had at the time that resembled it.

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So that would make sense. But they provided rescue

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services at the water rapids there for all the

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vessel traffic through the water system. So the

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foundation consists of a barge. So we got that

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much. We know that. And the superstructure of

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the station has two decks and a lookout tower,

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which is pretty cute. Cute little thing. Tiny

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cupola. It had steel pipe stanchions. which supported

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a walkway around the second deck and the eaves

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of the roof. And the roof was built with a pronounced

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crown. I don't really know what that means exactly,

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if it's like this looks like a balcony kind of

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like railing. Maybe. They also had a boathouse,

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which was located on one end, which housed the

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surf boats needed for the station, which they

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called Reckless and Ready. Two boats. One called

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Reckless. Oh, those are the names. One called

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Ready. Yeah. Reckless and Ready. I'm like, those

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are very different vibes. That's cool though.

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Yeah. So this one opened in 1881 and was decommissioned

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in the 1970s. So almost a century on the water.

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Kind of crazy. That is crazy. Especially, I mean,

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right next to, they're not like waterfalls, but

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they're rapids. Yeah, there's water moving. That

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sounds terrible. Going on. That sounds like a

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very hazardous place. Yeah. They had tons of

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stories online about stuff that they encountered.

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Lots of rescues and things. So they were, like,

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always on because traffic is constantly moving

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through the area. I don't know. I mean, I don't

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know what it was like for, like, light ships

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with how often, like, I don't know how often,

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like, big ships would come through a harbor or

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something. A lot, I think. Yeah. But here, so

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just to clarify, this lookout tower, there's

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no light in there, right? No. It's not signaling.

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It's unlit. It was just a crew of people to...

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go out on the water if something went wrong.

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So our second one was the Boster Harbor one called

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City Point Station. I have a photo of that one

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as well. Well, it's not a photo. It's like a

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painting, I think. A postcard. Might have been

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a photo at one time. Yeah, maybe. Because there

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is a person in the picture, which I can't imagine.

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Well, I don't know. They painted people before.

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So this one opened in 1896. So just like... 15

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years after the other floating station. So there

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had to have been some successes that would make

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them want to build another one. Yeah. And this

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one was decommissioned during World War II sometime.

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Oh, I didn't look up how to pronounce this. Dorchester

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Bay, that's what I'm going to say. Of course.

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Which had lots of yacht and sailboat accidents.

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So we're in the bougie area, lots of liberties

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being taken with their fancy boats. And thus,

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we need somebody to be keeping an eye on. It's

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crazy. I don't know that I've ever seen that

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style of boat before. I don't even know what

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to say about it, where it can launch boats from

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inside. Yeah. Like a channel. Maybe the military

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has something like that. Oh, it's like a boathouse,

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but the boathouse is also floating. Yes. It is

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interesting. I never noticed the big gaping hole

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in the side. Catamaran? Is that what that style

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is? Oh, I don't know. Like where it's got the

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multiple. It's not a pontoon. Anyways, you got

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some boat research to do. At least he said that

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very assuredly. It's not a pontoon. But yeah,

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interestingly, that's one of those hard words.

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Interestingly. Interestingly. Life -saving stations

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had keepers just like lighthouses did. So they

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talk a lot about how someone who's stationed

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at one life -saving station as a keeper will

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retire and go to another life -saving station.

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Yeah. So I just didn't know that. I thought it

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was interesting. That you'd have a keeper. I

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mean, it makes sense. A head honcho. Someone

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in charge of the operation. Yeah, that's going

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to travel between. That'd be interesting. I feel

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like that'd be a fun job. You know, the life

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-saving part is a little stressful. You'd have

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to get in the water a ton. Like keepers, they

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don't have to get in the water a lot, except

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for when they're like really exemplary. Yeah.

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Like keepers where they actually go out there

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instead of just like alerting somebody. Listen,

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I'm aware this is a dumb thing to say, but I'm

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going to put it out there. You know, like Navy

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SEALs. like special forces where I don't know

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if you've ever watched like any other training,

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their, their buds system. It's crazy. Uh, their

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training that they do, but anyone who goes through

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that Navy program has to be extremely well adept

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at swimming and, uh, very mentally tough. And

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they, they do all these things where they try

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to drown you basically. Uh, and they, you know,

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some people do drown and they have to revive

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them. Oh my gosh. It's a real crazy thing. These

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are not normal men. These are crazy people. They

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don't have that thing that's supposed to make

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you scared of living or dying. Highly intense

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folks. And I'm glad they're out there protecting

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us. But they have to become super, super, super

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comfortable swimming in water and become very

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athletic in that endeavor. Anyways, back in these

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days where we're talking about life -saving people,

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the top thing we talked about for... lighthouse

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keeper deaths was drowning, which seems kind

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of obvious. But I wonder, like, these folks,

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like, were they swimming every day? Are they

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doing dives? Are they doing drills or anything?

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Like, was it, you know, were these all 20 -year

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-old men that were just ready to swim and rescue

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people? Or are these people of all ages? Is this

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something that you would retire from early? I

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don't know. I can't believe you talked through

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my whole sentence. My headset's really killing

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me. I'm sorry. Do you want to try it? My last

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of three headsets? Yeah, yeah. If anyone wants

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to sponsor this podcast so I can not hold my

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hand to my ear to keep the wire connected to

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the other wire, please reach out. We're poor.

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We're planning a wedding. We have no money. We

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have negative money. Hold, please. We'll be right

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back after no sponsored message. Did you see

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that you can, you probably didn't get this message.

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Oh, I like that. Dance. Dance. All right. Just

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so everyone knows, now I am wearing a set of

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Ferrari brand, like the car. So they should really

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sponsor this. Headset. Well, these are from circa

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2015, 2014. My brother gave me these. And they

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are mid -level quality headphones, to be honest

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with you. Yeah. But they are in the form of the

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Pitlane Formula One headset. I don't think Ferrari's

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in Formula One, so that's even more confusing.

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Oh, absolutely they are. Yes, they are. Oh, you're

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having a stroke. I was thinking of NASCAR. Oh,

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yeah. Oh, yes. They're not in that. For sure.

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Anyways, so. I'm so glad that this problem has

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been solved and just in time because we're moving

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on to our lighthouse of the day. All right, let's

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go. We're going to be talking about a Georgia

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lighthouse today. This is our first Georgia lighthouse

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that we're covering. The state of Georgia in

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the U .S. of A. The peach. Just to clarify, there

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is a country. We're talking about the state,

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the U .S. state. Okay. I pulled up a map of where

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we're going. The Sapelo Lighthouse. Sapelo Island

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Lighthouse is what we're talking about today.

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And Sapelo Island is practically attached to

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the mainland of Georgia. But it's one of like

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the big barrier islands that's along the coast.

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The fourth largest. Golf courses. Is there really?

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Oh, I'm sure. I'm not surprised by that. The

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history here points to being an affluent community.

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Nice. In a lot of areas. It's 12 miles long and

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3 miles wide and was originally inhabited by

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Spanish missionaries and also French and English

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settlers in the past. That is until 1802 when

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the island was purchased by Thomas Spalding.

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This guy has gone down in history. We have lots.

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He has his own Wikipedia page. Spalding as in

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the sports brand? Unlikely. Okay. I mean, possible,

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but I think unlikely. When you hear the history.

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On the island, he established a productive plantation,

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growing sea island cotton, sugar cane, and rice

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with the help of roughly 400 slaves. Yeah, I

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saw where this was going. And he had lots of

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other plantations and, like, island. He owned

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another island. His dad. became really rich and

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left it to his son, and he was a lawyer. Even

00:14:05.610 --> 00:14:07.350
though he never practiced, he went to Congress,

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and he was all up in history. In 1816, Spalding

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sold five acres at the southern end of the island

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for $1 for the building of a lighthouse. So it

00:14:20.850 --> 00:14:23.970
was just like a... What a deal. Yeah, the dollar

00:14:23.970 --> 00:14:28.429
was just a... What's the word? Formality? Yeah,

00:14:28.450 --> 00:14:31.399
like, yeah. Representative? Mm -hmm. A legality.

00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:33.419
And I read a little bit about it. I won't go

00:14:33.419 --> 00:14:37.539
too deep. It's hard because, especially in this

00:14:37.539 --> 00:14:41.820
episode, you could go deep into anything for

00:14:41.820 --> 00:14:45.500
an episode. So I kind of have to refocus on the

00:14:45.500 --> 00:14:47.860
lighthouse. Especially, it's whenever it goes

00:14:47.860 --> 00:14:50.860
into history, like the Civil War, like around

00:14:50.860 --> 00:14:54.600
that era, everything. Civil War? I said civil.

00:14:55.620 --> 00:14:58.759
Let the record reflect. I guess I will listen

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back and decide. Silver war? Maybe. And it started

00:15:04.340 --> 00:15:06.919
to silverware on them, and they really wanted

00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:10.480
out of it. They are the worst. Okay, whatever.

00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:13.320
I'm pretty sure I said civil, and you're just

00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:15.860
still having your stroke from earlier. He said

00:15:15.860 --> 00:15:20.000
around the silver, the civil war. Anyway, I read

00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:24.799
that he wanted this area to be a U .S. naval

00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:28.360
base, and he thought that the lighthouse would.

00:15:29.469 --> 00:15:32.990
in that. I don't know what kind of stake he had

00:15:32.990 --> 00:15:36.470
in it being something like the U .S. Navy. I

00:15:36.470 --> 00:15:39.110
don't know. Maybe he liked the Navy. Maybe he

00:15:39.110 --> 00:15:42.210
wanted to fight the North and he was talking

00:15:42.210 --> 00:15:46.649
about the Confederate Army because he was a slave

00:15:46.649 --> 00:15:49.769
owner. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe he wanted money

00:15:49.769 --> 00:15:52.429
because he had property. Yeah, I think he was

00:15:52.429 --> 00:15:56.149
planning on being, you know, like president.

00:15:56.269 --> 00:15:59.440
The president. Mr. High Society. I think that

00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:01.960
was his life goal. Back in the day, you'd just

00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:04.100
be rich and you'd just be like, I'm going to

00:16:04.100 --> 00:16:05.960
be the president now. You know what? There's

00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:08.600
only like 100 people here. My chances are pretty

00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:14.559
good. But anyway, so he sold the five acres to

00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:16.559
the U .S. so that they could build a lighthouse.

00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:22.039
And Winslow Lewis, our... Winslow. Yeah. One

00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:25.080
of our favorites. was contracted to build the

00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:28.200
90 -foot tapered white brick lighthouse. Can

00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:32.039
I guess? 1890. Winslow Lewis Lighthouse fell

00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:37.279
early. No. Okay. It's shocking. This is the first

00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:38.980
one. This must have been the golden one. Yeah,

00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:42.620
this must have been before, you know, I won't

00:16:42.620 --> 00:16:45.480
continue, but it was brick. And the ones that

00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:48.159
he built that were... really, really poor quality

00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:51.000
were always rubble stone that fell apart. Yeah,

00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:53.940
they stacked stones on top. Yeah, so I'm thinking...

00:16:53.940 --> 00:17:03.340
This was a brick. Maybe... House. Ow. Lighthouse.

00:17:05.940 --> 00:17:08.740
This is terrible. You're welcome. 1819, he started

00:17:08.740 --> 00:17:11.650
construction on this lighthouse. added 15 of

00:17:11.650 --> 00:17:14.869
his 16 -inch reflectors and lamps, which I read

00:17:14.869 --> 00:17:19.690
consumed 540 gallons of oil annually. Okay. That's

00:17:19.690 --> 00:17:22.710
a ton. That's a lot of oil. Lots and lots of

00:17:22.710 --> 00:17:25.410
oil. It doesn't sound like that much. Well, you're

00:17:25.410 --> 00:17:30.250
wrong. 500 gallons annually, 540. For just some

00:17:30.250 --> 00:17:34.049
lamps. 10 gallons a week, roughly. Okay. Think

00:17:34.049 --> 00:17:45.390
about a gallon. So... Whatever you're going to

00:17:45.390 --> 00:17:48.369
say, you're like, no. So I pulled a picture,

00:17:48.569 --> 00:17:52.789
a really old one, of the light tower when it

00:17:52.789 --> 00:17:55.750
was white and our keeper's cottage. Looks haunted.

00:17:56.349 --> 00:18:03.210
I can't remember what they said. Oh, it was basically

00:18:03.210 --> 00:18:05.849
disproven, so I didn't even write it down. It

00:18:05.849 --> 00:18:08.190
was some fact that they were like, this used

00:18:08.190 --> 00:18:11.670
to be the house of somebody, something haunted.

00:18:12.220 --> 00:18:14.819
and then they moved it to this location, and

00:18:14.819 --> 00:18:16.940
that was the Keeper's Cottage. But then they

00:18:16.940 --> 00:18:19.160
said that there's record of this house being

00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:22.339
built as the Keeper's Cottage, so there was no

00:18:22.339 --> 00:18:25.059
point in mentioning it. But yes, haunted is the

00:18:25.059 --> 00:18:27.859
general vibe. The lighthouse was activated a

00:18:27.859 --> 00:18:37.299
year later, 1820, and marked... Doughboy? Doughboy

00:18:37.299 --> 00:18:45.869
sound? Doughboy? Doughboy? Doughboy? Is it D

00:18:45.869 --> 00:18:52.190
-B -O -I -S? D -O -B -O -Y. Doughboy. Oh, I have

00:18:52.190 --> 00:18:55.190
no idea. Okay, so I think it's Doughboy. Doughboy

00:18:55.190 --> 00:19:04.250
sound. Biggie Smalls. Biggie Smalls and Chance

00:19:04.250 --> 00:19:09.170
the Rapper. Doughboy sound. I don't think I ever

00:19:09.170 --> 00:19:11.009
have to mention it again. So we're just going

00:19:11.009 --> 00:19:13.609
to, I could have just wiped it out. Stop it.

00:19:16.009 --> 00:19:18.670
Marked it for the mariners traveling to and from

00:19:18.670 --> 00:19:21.829
the port of Darien, which is where lumber and

00:19:21.829 --> 00:19:24.349
crops collected after being produced in Georgia.

00:19:24.430 --> 00:19:27.470
So it was like this huge timber port. And so

00:19:27.470 --> 00:19:29.609
obviously there was tons of action happening

00:19:29.609 --> 00:19:31.349
around this area, which is why they had to have

00:19:31.349 --> 00:19:38.289
a lighthouse in the first place. Sugar. That

00:19:38.289 --> 00:19:41.970
wasn't a joke. It's just when you say things

00:19:41.970 --> 00:19:45.630
so randomly, like I never mentioned sugar. You

00:19:45.630 --> 00:19:47.769
know, someone out there, I say sugar and they're

00:19:47.769 --> 00:19:52.009
like, yeah, Georgia. He's right, actually. Honey,

00:19:52.109 --> 00:19:53.970
did you know? It's just kind of my type of humor,

00:19:54.029 --> 00:19:56.289
I think. I think you're funny without meaning

00:19:56.289 --> 00:20:00.069
to because it's me specifically. Maybe somebody

00:20:00.069 --> 00:20:01.430
else wouldn't think that's funny, but I think

00:20:01.430 --> 00:20:10.869
it's hilarious. You're so funny. Thank you. Okay.

00:20:10.869 --> 00:20:14.210
1850. So we're going 30 years later. I don't

00:20:14.210 --> 00:20:18.829
know. There's not much in that time period. The

00:20:18.829 --> 00:20:20.990
day mark of the light was changed from white

00:20:20.990 --> 00:20:23.529
to red and white stripe to help distinguish it

00:20:23.529 --> 00:20:25.630
in the daytime. So we're just making our day

00:20:25.630 --> 00:20:29.109
mark a little more noticeable, a little more

00:20:29.109 --> 00:20:32.990
easier to spot. So I have a picture of when that

00:20:32.990 --> 00:20:36.569
was changed. We love... Bold stripes. It's a

00:20:36.569 --> 00:20:41.930
big, thick lighthouse. It's nice. It's got a

00:20:41.930 --> 00:20:45.690
pleasing profile. The ratio of lantern room to

00:20:45.690 --> 00:20:49.410
the width of the lantern room to the width of

00:20:49.410 --> 00:20:51.990
the lighthouse is really nice. I just like it.

00:20:52.690 --> 00:20:55.450
Four years after they changed the day mark, so

00:20:55.450 --> 00:21:00.509
1854, the light was given a fourth order Fresnel

00:21:00.509 --> 00:21:04.400
lens, so we're kicking. lamps and now we're going

00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:08.240
to Fresnel lens and produced a bright white flash

00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:12.539
every 40 seconds added to its fixed white characteristic

00:21:12.539 --> 00:21:14.859
which basically just means that they added a

00:21:14.859 --> 00:21:19.880
bullseye lens on yeah normal lens so kind of

00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:22.900
cute kind of fun special we find out later that

00:21:22.900 --> 00:21:26.119
this characteristic continues to be special as

00:21:26.119 --> 00:21:31.279
it ages A year after that, in 1855, the board

00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:34.960
requested $1 ,500 for a beacon at the southern

00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:37.460
tip of the island. Not a lighthouse, a beacon.

00:21:38.299 --> 00:21:41.279
Which would form a range light with Sapolo Island

00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:45.019
Lighthouse to help mariners find... The proper

00:21:45.019 --> 00:21:48.400
channel for entering the sound, which I'll go

00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:51.859
back. And a range light is where you align two.

00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:54.279
Yes. Versus a sector. So that you know you're

00:21:54.279 --> 00:21:56.880
going in the correct direction by aligning with

00:21:56.880 --> 00:21:59.619
two lighthouses. A sector is like multicolor.

00:21:59.819 --> 00:22:03.119
Yes. Yeah. That's like if you lose sight of the

00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:04.579
light. If you're in the red, you're in the red.

00:22:04.660 --> 00:22:08.759
Yeah. So I went back to the maps. So you can

00:22:08.759 --> 00:22:11.660
see. all the channels that they're talking about,

00:22:11.700 --> 00:22:14.079
that there's some correct ones down in the bottom

00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:17.500
left corner. That's the Port of Darien. And so

00:22:17.500 --> 00:22:21.420
apparently they want you to travel through one

00:22:21.420 --> 00:22:24.400
of these channels that's past the lighthouse.

00:22:24.619 --> 00:22:29.539
Or, I mean, I'm sure that this down here, Altamaha

00:22:29.539 --> 00:22:32.980
River, that was probably a good entrance. But

00:22:32.980 --> 00:22:35.140
something about this area, they're like, enter

00:22:35.140 --> 00:22:38.519
here and follow the lights. So they added that

00:22:38.519 --> 00:22:43.779
beacon in 1856 with a fourth order lens. So they

00:22:43.779 --> 00:22:46.480
kind of matched each other in power. Mariners

00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:49.180
were told to, quote, bring the beacon in range

00:22:49.180 --> 00:22:51.740
with the main light and run for them until the

00:22:51.740 --> 00:22:54.019
outer or east beacon on Wolf Island was at a

00:22:54.019 --> 00:22:57.200
specific bearing. Wolf Island is just south of

00:22:57.200 --> 00:23:01.579
Sapelo Island. We're going back to Spalding.

00:23:01.660 --> 00:23:03.319
We're going to talk about him a little bit more.

00:23:03.400 --> 00:23:06.720
He was a slaver. What else? He passed away in

00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:10.660
1851 on the way back from fighting against the

00:23:10.660 --> 00:23:14.299
abolition of slavery at a convention. He was

00:23:14.299 --> 00:23:18.200
murdered. It didn't specify, but he was at one

00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:21.819
of his other houses. I'm sure it would have said

00:23:21.819 --> 00:23:24.900
murdered if he were killed by somebody. I think

00:23:24.900 --> 00:23:27.660
he was old and just passed away. I'm pretty sure

00:23:27.660 --> 00:23:35.619
he was born in 1773. Oh my. He was old. Yeah,

00:23:35.619 --> 00:23:38.240
so he was like 80 -something. For those times,

00:23:38.359 --> 00:23:43.900
yeah. His son continued his operation in the

00:23:43.900 --> 00:23:46.660
South End House, which was the plantation mansion

00:23:46.660 --> 00:23:50.759
that he built on the island in 1802 when he first

00:23:50.759 --> 00:23:54.180
moved there. And it was like, it took like eight

00:23:54.180 --> 00:23:55.920
years to complete, and of course, it was all

00:23:55.920 --> 00:24:02.309
built by slaves. Just whatever. His son was chased

00:24:02.309 --> 00:24:04.769
from the house by the Union Army, which took

00:24:04.769 --> 00:24:08.750
over the island in 1862 during the Civil War.

00:24:08.890 --> 00:24:11.630
So he kind of planted his butt in there until

00:24:11.630 --> 00:24:15.630
he was forced to leave the house. Yeah. And the

00:24:15.630 --> 00:24:17.990
mansion was just absolutely trashed, left in

00:24:17.990 --> 00:24:20.430
ruins until it was purchased and restored decades

00:24:20.430 --> 00:24:23.740
later. I have some pictures of it. Now it's known

00:24:23.740 --> 00:24:26.339
usually as the Reynolds House. There was several

00:24:26.339 --> 00:24:28.480
names for it, of course, as it was owned over

00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:31.660
time. And now it's owned by the state of Georgia.

00:24:31.819 --> 00:24:35.740
You can have parties there or something. So this

00:24:35.740 --> 00:24:38.119
was one long photo, and I separated it into two

00:24:38.119 --> 00:24:42.559
so you can see it better. So this was the architect's

00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:45.000
drawing of what they wanted it to look like.

00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:48.700
So it ended up pretty much like that. And then

00:24:48.700 --> 00:24:51.579
below is the ruins that it was left in after

00:24:51.579 --> 00:24:56.079
the Civil War. Not so good. Lots of growths and

00:24:56.079 --> 00:24:59.279
whatnot. Yeah. Lots of stuff. And then the one

00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:02.079
on top of that is when it was purchased the first

00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:06.680
time. I can't remember by who. I want to say

00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:10.599
it was a car guy. I can't remember. Jay Leno?

00:25:10.759 --> 00:25:15.140
No. But then it was purchased another time by

00:25:15.140 --> 00:25:17.619
a guy with the last name Reynolds. Okay. And

00:25:17.619 --> 00:25:20.319
he made it into what you see today, like outdoor

00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:22.900
pool, indoor pool. There's a bowling alley, all

00:25:22.900 --> 00:25:26.059
kinds of stuff. So interesting. So was this,

00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:30.259
would you say that it was a plantation? Oh, yeah.

00:25:31.180 --> 00:25:32.759
Plantation house? Yes. Because they had their

00:25:32.759 --> 00:25:35.359
own crops and they had slaves. Okay. Yeah. 400

00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:37.680
of them, just on the island. And it's owned by

00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:40.059
the state today. And what's the function today?

00:25:40.569 --> 00:25:43.309
Just parties. It's an event space. So interesting.

00:25:44.150 --> 00:25:47.869
The South has some interesting, it's not usually

00:25:47.869 --> 00:25:51.730
adjacent to lighthouse culture or lighthouse

00:25:51.730 --> 00:25:55.670
stories, these plantations. I saw a couple months

00:25:55.670 --> 00:25:58.569
ago at this point, one was burned intentionally.

00:25:58.990 --> 00:26:01.750
Oh, yes. Do you know that story? I don't know

00:26:01.750 --> 00:26:04.750
what happened. Somebody said it had something

00:26:04.750 --> 00:26:10.210
to do with people got out of prison. Like escaped

00:26:10.210 --> 00:26:13.069
prison or something at the, at least the two

00:26:13.069 --> 00:26:15.710
events coincided. So sure. Like there was speculation

00:26:15.710 --> 00:26:18.410
that they did it, but it seemed intentional,

00:26:18.470 --> 00:26:21.970
like a planned, there was fire crews waiting,

00:26:22.049 --> 00:26:23.970
but not putting it out type of thing. Interesting.

00:26:24.009 --> 00:26:26.809
Like a, like planned demolition by fire. Oh,

00:26:26.849 --> 00:26:29.049
that, that was my understanding. Okay. But, and

00:26:29.049 --> 00:26:31.730
there's a different cultural conversation going

00:26:31.730 --> 00:26:35.630
on about what about these civil war and antebellum

00:26:35.630 --> 00:26:38.319
and slavery historical. figures and places and

00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:40.940
statues should we get rid of those we're getting

00:26:40.940 --> 00:26:43.880
rid of some of them oh like people are arguing

00:26:43.880 --> 00:26:45.859
that we should not should not have statues of

00:26:45.859 --> 00:26:48.599
people houses and stuff yeah well or statues

00:26:48.599 --> 00:26:52.019
of you know southern generals that were in the

00:26:52.019 --> 00:26:53.900
confederate army oh yeah even though they were

00:26:53.900 --> 00:26:57.039
americans in a way they lost the war and slavery

00:26:57.039 --> 00:26:59.559
is bad of course yeah and so we should get rid

00:26:59.559 --> 00:27:01.440
of those things other people argue that we should

00:27:01.440 --> 00:27:04.670
keep them Because of recognition of... You have

00:27:04.670 --> 00:27:06.589
to... The whole point of history is that you

00:27:06.589 --> 00:27:09.089
learn from past mistakes. It's challenging. And

00:27:09.089 --> 00:27:11.309
past... Yeah, you don't want to get rid of things

00:27:11.309 --> 00:27:13.009
just because they're bad. I mean, you can go

00:27:13.009 --> 00:27:17.069
in... You can go in... People... It's on their

00:27:17.069 --> 00:27:19.630
bucket list to go and see Auschwitz, you know?

00:27:19.809 --> 00:27:21.609
Auschwitz, yeah. Auschwitz. It's very difficult

00:27:21.609 --> 00:27:24.230
to pronounce. Oh. I don't know if I can, is what

00:27:24.230 --> 00:27:26.289
I'm saying. Auschwitz. Auschwitz is what I think,

00:27:26.289 --> 00:27:30.069
but I... I went to Dachau, which is another one

00:27:30.069 --> 00:27:34.029
in Germany, outside of Munich. But like nobody's

00:27:34.029 --> 00:27:36.089
going there. It's not a happy day. It's good.

00:27:36.170 --> 00:27:38.910
No, it's, it's to learn from history. The point

00:27:38.910 --> 00:27:42.210
is that you feel terrible. So yes, this does

00:27:42.210 --> 00:27:46.289
have a really great coffee shop. Oh, at the visitor

00:27:46.289 --> 00:27:50.269
center. That's interesting. Anyways, I'm, I've

00:27:50.269 --> 00:27:52.690
dragged us off topic. The point is, it's interesting

00:27:52.690 --> 00:27:55.690
to me that this is one of those Southern potentially

00:27:55.690 --> 00:28:00.230
divisive places and it's owned by the state.

00:28:01.369 --> 00:28:04.609
And it's not, it's not a museum. Well, it would

00:28:04.609 --> 00:28:07.009
be nice if it was a museum, but Reynolds, the

00:28:07.009 --> 00:28:11.369
guy who had it first, he, I wish I had taken

00:28:11.369 --> 00:28:13.789
more notes, but see, I was going on a deep dive.

00:28:14.210 --> 00:28:16.210
There's deep dives all over the place. Yeah.

00:28:16.210 --> 00:28:18.190
And then I was like, no, no, this is about the

00:28:18.190 --> 00:28:20.609
lighthouse. So I got to stop. But he did a bunch

00:28:20.609 --> 00:28:24.390
of like cultural donations and like, he didn't

00:28:24.390 --> 00:28:25.670
just like buy the house and be like, I'm going

00:28:25.670 --> 00:28:28.130
to make this like. Sure. The cool party house.

00:28:28.130 --> 00:28:31.089
This is my sick pad. Yeah. He was doing it for

00:28:31.089 --> 00:28:34.250
historical reasons and like all tons of donating

00:28:34.250 --> 00:28:38.869
and a lot of the island now is like environmental

00:28:38.869 --> 00:28:42.549
research. I saw a wildlife preserve out there

00:28:42.549 --> 00:28:46.069
it looks like. Yeah. So in the latest state of

00:28:46.069 --> 00:28:49.450
the house is there still a lighthouse? Yes. The

00:28:49.450 --> 00:28:52.130
house is unrelated to the lighthouse. It's just

00:28:52.130 --> 00:28:55.750
that it was built by Spalding and he wanted to

00:28:56.490 --> 00:28:58.869
have a lighthouse for the naval base. But the

00:28:58.869 --> 00:29:00.970
lighthouse would have been produced regardless

00:29:00.970 --> 00:29:03.170
of if he was there, except for that he sold the

00:29:03.170 --> 00:29:07.789
land for his little token $1. So anyway, I got

00:29:07.789 --> 00:29:10.089
way deep into this house. I tried not to, and

00:29:10.089 --> 00:29:13.670
I still did. The Confederates had taken the Fresnelans

00:29:13.670 --> 00:29:17.170
out of the lighthouse during World War I. Sorry.

00:29:18.430 --> 00:29:23.450
It's basically... I'm cutting that out. During

00:29:23.450 --> 00:29:30.940
the Civil War. And by the end, the light station

00:29:30.940 --> 00:29:33.039
was very badly damaged. The lighthouse board

00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:38.859
did like a big assessment and everything. And

00:29:38.859 --> 00:29:41.880
they were just like severely damaged by the rebels.

00:29:42.259 --> 00:29:46.200
Like, yeah, the rebels. Rebels scum. After almost

00:29:46.200 --> 00:29:49.759
a complete rebuild of the dwelling and adding

00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:51.440
a new lantern room to the lighthouse, it was

00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:55.450
relit in 1868. and the range light was rebuilt

00:29:55.450 --> 00:29:59.069
in wood on a 100 -foot tramway. So as there were

00:29:59.069 --> 00:30:02.890
changes in the channel, they could move the beacon

00:30:02.890 --> 00:30:04.930
light slightly. I was like, I would have never

00:30:04.930 --> 00:30:07.529
considered that that would be something you have

00:30:07.529 --> 00:30:10.589
to worry about. But I guess shifting sands, it's

00:30:10.589 --> 00:30:13.089
a tale as old as time. I said that last time,

00:30:13.170 --> 00:30:17.980
like four times. Tale as old as time. You tell

00:30:17.980 --> 00:30:20.140
whenever I'm editing that I get annoyed by stuff.

00:30:20.220 --> 00:30:21.960
I'm like, why did I say that so many times? We

00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:23.599
do though. We get locked. I do it all the time.

00:30:23.640 --> 00:30:25.400
Get locked into saying the same thing over and

00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:27.359
over again. It's like a word you pick up and

00:30:27.359 --> 00:30:29.900
then all of a sudden it just comes to you and

00:30:29.900 --> 00:30:32.279
we're not, we're not reading a script or anything.

00:30:32.339 --> 00:30:34.759
So it just happens. I've been saying buddy a

00:30:34.759 --> 00:30:38.160
lot lately. Really? Bud, buddy. Oh, I haven't

00:30:38.160 --> 00:30:40.859
noticed. Don't know. Like a lot of work, which,

00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:44.700
you know, peers of mine. So not like, not like

00:30:44.700 --> 00:30:47.710
some random guy. Yeah. But buddy. It's like,

00:30:47.730 --> 00:30:50.170
those are fighting words. Can I help you, pal?

00:30:52.430 --> 00:30:56.130
Okay, whoa. Let me get back on track. Yes, on

00:30:56.130 --> 00:30:58.430
the tramway, and this wooden beacon was replaced

00:30:58.430 --> 00:31:03.650
with an iron one in 1877. 1877, which is what

00:31:03.650 --> 00:31:08.069
we have today. Let me have a picture. Cool. It's

00:31:08.069 --> 00:31:10.329
just a cute little, it's just a square room on

00:31:10.329 --> 00:31:12.869
top of stilts. That's basically it. Looks nice.

00:31:13.150 --> 00:31:16.240
Yeah, and it has a light. Very specifically coming

00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:19.400
out of one small rectangular window. So when

00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:22.359
you see this light, you're on track. It's nice.

00:31:22.460 --> 00:31:25.500
It looks like a really good hunting blind. Yeah,

00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:27.019
that's kind of what I thought too when I saw

00:31:27.019 --> 00:31:30.299
it. It looked more like a stand, like a hunting.

00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:35.099
But those structural supports make it seem very

00:31:35.099 --> 00:31:41.099
staunch. Solid. Ready for a storm. After the

00:31:41.099 --> 00:31:43.279
war, after our Civil War, several freed slaves

00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:46.420
returned to Sapelo Island, creating a settlement

00:31:46.420 --> 00:31:49.900
on 434 acres of land, which was deeded to them

00:31:49.900 --> 00:31:53.000
from the Spaldings, which I was trying to remember

00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:56.019
from history, if like slave owners were forced

00:31:56.019 --> 00:32:00.900
to give land, give money to slaves, because what

00:32:00.900 --> 00:32:02.759
would you do? I don't think so. Because what

00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:04.799
would you do if you just kind of like, they're

00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:06.619
like, here, you're free. It'd be really scary.

00:32:06.940 --> 00:32:11.569
Well, I think from my very short, in the history

00:32:11.569 --> 00:32:14.369
of slavery in the United States. I think that

00:32:14.369 --> 00:32:18.990
what was the period called right after slavery?

00:32:20.690 --> 00:32:23.710
Emancipation? Antebellum. Oh, oh. The point is

00:32:23.710 --> 00:32:25.589
there's a lot of problems because just because

00:32:25.589 --> 00:32:28.269
slaves were free didn't change all of those awful

00:32:28.269 --> 00:32:30.769
systems that were installed over the years. And

00:32:30.769 --> 00:32:33.910
all of a sudden being free to go anywhere, like

00:32:33.910 --> 00:32:35.829
where are you going to live? What are you going

00:32:35.829 --> 00:32:38.289
to do? You have no money. You have no developed

00:32:38.289 --> 00:32:40.799
job. You don't have it like, oh, here's my resume.

00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:42.539
Here's all the stuff I've been doing. Maybe you

00:32:42.539 --> 00:32:44.819
don't even speak English. Well, you certainly

00:32:44.819 --> 00:32:48.259
wouldn't have an education. Yeah. A basic education

00:32:48.259 --> 00:32:52.519
didn't exist for them as far as I know. Anyways,

00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:55.819
it was very difficult. 400 acres is a good amount

00:32:55.819 --> 00:33:00.960
of land depending on what it is, how many people,

00:33:01.259 --> 00:33:04.119
what resources they have. But that is an interesting

00:33:04.119 --> 00:33:06.720
use of that land, part of the story. Yeah, and

00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:09.180
the settlement is called Hog Hammock, named after

00:33:09.180 --> 00:33:12.380
Samson Hog, who cared for the hogs on the plantation.

00:33:14.079 --> 00:33:21.200
Hog Hammock. So, yeah, Hog Hammock is... What

00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:24.539
do you want? What do you want from me? Keep going.

00:33:24.619 --> 00:33:28.500
I'm just saying history. It's the last on the

00:33:28.500 --> 00:33:30.799
island. I'm not continuing until you're done

00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:34.809
laughing. I didn't even think that was a funny

00:33:34.809 --> 00:33:43.029
name. One second. You just come looking out the

00:33:43.029 --> 00:33:45.990
window trying to get it together. All right.

00:33:46.269 --> 00:33:49.150
This settlement is the last on the island that

00:33:49.150 --> 00:33:52.390
preserves the Gullah culture and language, which

00:33:52.390 --> 00:33:55.210
is a rich mixture of African, European, and American

00:33:55.210 --> 00:33:58.450
customs and dialects. Cool. Never heard of it.

00:33:58.700 --> 00:34:01.559
Yeah, most of the people still living on this

00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:03.759
island or in this settlement, I think there's

00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:07.359
70, last I checked, are descendants from the

00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:11.099
freed slaves on Sapelo Island. Oh, cool. So it's

00:34:11.099 --> 00:34:13.239
pretty neat. You can go and it's part of the

00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:16.739
tours you can take now as it stops in Hog Hammock.

00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:30.170
Nice. No! So after this, going back to the lighthouse,

00:34:30.329 --> 00:34:32.869
focus, focus. We had a string of seven keepers,

00:34:32.869 --> 00:34:34.929
all of which did not stick around for longer

00:34:34.929 --> 00:34:36.889
than a year. Oh, wow. I don't know what was going

00:34:36.889 --> 00:34:39.389
on. That's crazy. But James Cromley came in and

00:34:39.389 --> 00:34:42.110
brought some stability to the position, serving

00:34:42.110 --> 00:34:44.349
for 16 years until he died. So he didn't even

00:34:44.349 --> 00:34:46.690
retire. He just passed away on the job. Like

00:34:46.690 --> 00:34:49.190
a soldier. But that's because he was hired at

00:34:49.190 --> 00:34:52.210
74 years old. Oh, my gosh. So he actually lived

00:34:52.210 --> 00:34:57.679
to 90. So he lived at 90? That's crazy. Like

00:34:57.679 --> 00:35:00.699
how does this happen? 74, you start this job

00:35:00.699 --> 00:35:03.039
and you stick around for 16 years. That's a wild

00:35:03.039 --> 00:35:06.099
boy. And the whole time he was supplementing

00:35:06.099 --> 00:35:11.039
his pay as a keeper, making shoes for crews of

00:35:11.039 --> 00:35:13.800
the vessels that would dock nearby. Awesome.

00:35:13.940 --> 00:35:16.699
I know. I wish I had tried to look up pictures

00:35:16.699 --> 00:35:19.920
of like Cromley shoes or something. I don't think

00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:22.679
the shoemaking passed down in history, you know,

00:35:22.679 --> 00:35:25.500
in his family, but like light keeping surely

00:35:25.500 --> 00:35:28.320
did because. For the rest of this lighthouse's

00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:31.780
history, the keepers were always Cromleys. Huh.

00:35:31.960 --> 00:35:34.119
Yeah. They just stuck around. How many of them?

00:35:34.280 --> 00:35:38.000
Three. Okay. That's impressive. I know. Three

00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:41.239
generations of Cromleys serving at this lighthouse

00:35:41.239 --> 00:35:45.480
until it was discontinued. Oh, I noted four of

00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:47.699
his sons served as assistant keepers and three

00:35:47.699 --> 00:35:52.000
moved on to be head keeper. Kind of fun. In 1898,

00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:54.780
we are still not in the 1900s. It's crazy. I

00:35:54.780 --> 00:35:58.610
love it. 1898. 1898. Burns and McDonald was founded.

00:35:58.969 --> 00:36:01.070
Oh, yeah, you're right. Shout out. Our only sponsor.

00:36:01.070 --> 00:36:03.710
And it was also the date of the largest hurricane

00:36:03.710 --> 00:36:09.670
to ever hit Georgia. Oh, no. It landed near Sappalo,

00:36:09.769 --> 00:36:12.690
and the keeper's dwelling was submerged halfway

00:36:12.690 --> 00:36:14.789
up the second floor, so that's kind of crazy.

00:36:14.789 --> 00:36:17.230
Oh, my gosh. Completely gutted it and partially

00:36:17.230 --> 00:36:20.510
washed it away, so just, like, unhabitable. The

00:36:20.510 --> 00:36:22.250
keeper and his family survived by taking refuge

00:36:22.250 --> 00:36:26.599
in the tower, as per... Lots of past stories

00:36:26.599 --> 00:36:29.579
of hurricanes and lighthouses. Even in modern

00:36:29.579 --> 00:36:32.460
day, if you can't make it out before a hurricane,

00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:34.000
go to the light tower. Yeah, you actually would

00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:37.139
have a pretty good odds surviving in a lighthouse.

00:36:37.380 --> 00:36:38.980
That's what they're built for. You just keep

00:36:38.980 --> 00:36:44.340
on going up. You know, as the water rises. I

00:36:44.340 --> 00:36:48.260
just said the range light is discontinued. That's

00:36:48.260 --> 00:36:51.429
all I had on the hurricane. Yeah, at the same

00:36:51.429 --> 00:36:53.869
time, I don't know if it was washed away. No,

00:36:53.909 --> 00:36:55.269
no, because we still have the same one today.

00:36:55.449 --> 00:36:57.289
So they just turned it off. They're like, we're

00:36:57.289 --> 00:37:00.070
done with this. I think at this time, there was

00:37:00.070 --> 00:37:01.989
still a lot of shipping. There was like a dip

00:37:01.989 --> 00:37:06.369
in shipping because I wish I had taken more notes,

00:37:06.409 --> 00:37:08.869
but I didn't know how far away I was going from

00:37:08.869 --> 00:37:11.690
the main focus. And so I just didn't take a lot

00:37:11.690 --> 00:37:14.250
of notes. But there was some kind of shift in

00:37:14.250 --> 00:37:17.250
what was being shipped out. of the port of Darien.

00:37:17.849 --> 00:37:21.710
Different product? Yeah, some big change around

00:37:21.710 --> 00:37:23.710
this time. Some shortage or some excess or something.

00:37:23.829 --> 00:37:26.590
So then they removed the range light. The lighthouse

00:37:26.590 --> 00:37:29.550
board requested $40 ,000 to build a new tower

00:37:29.550 --> 00:37:33.170
and dwelling further inland because erosion started

00:37:33.170 --> 00:37:35.969
happening. Erosion, corrosion. This was right

00:37:35.969 --> 00:37:39.510
after the hurricane, so there was a bunch of

00:37:39.510 --> 00:37:41.070
damage to everything. So they're like, let's

00:37:41.070 --> 00:37:44.090
just build a new tower and a new dwelling. 1902,

00:37:44.309 --> 00:37:48.389
Congress awarded the money and a 52 -foot deep

00:37:48.389 --> 00:37:51.090
test bore was drilled and deemed satisfactory.

00:37:51.409 --> 00:37:54.090
So something about this 52 feet underground was

00:37:54.090 --> 00:37:59.809
like, yep, that's good. Precise. 52 feet. That's

00:37:59.809 --> 00:38:02.250
ridiculous, isn't it? That's a long way. Okay.

00:38:02.389 --> 00:38:05.389
So I figured that was kind of crazy. They wanted

00:38:05.389 --> 00:38:07.530
to see what was down there and they got all the

00:38:07.530 --> 00:38:10.030
layers and they're like, yep, slap the hood.

00:38:11.949 --> 00:38:14.230
But in November, the beach was washed away so

00:38:14.230 --> 00:38:16.409
much that the current light station was undermined.

00:38:16.829 --> 00:38:21.369
Oh, they were wrong. No, no. I mean, the current

00:38:21.369 --> 00:38:24.429
one, where it is on the beach, was... Oh, oh,

00:38:24.449 --> 00:38:26.130
oh. Yeah, this is why they were building a new

00:38:26.130 --> 00:38:29.269
one. So the dwelling at that point was deemed

00:38:29.269 --> 00:38:32.230
uninhabitable, so they demoed it and used the

00:38:32.230 --> 00:38:36.679
bricks to prop underneath. The lighthouse. And

00:38:36.679 --> 00:38:40.039
20 feet around the existing tower and then covered

00:38:40.039 --> 00:38:43.300
it in cement. So there was like this hump keeping

00:38:43.300 --> 00:38:47.179
it from sinking. Yeah, a little big foot to keep

00:38:47.179 --> 00:38:50.940
it from sinking too far. 1904, contracts were

00:38:50.940 --> 00:38:53.820
awarded and the new lighthouse was built. So

00:38:53.820 --> 00:38:57.519
I have a picture. The year that Dodge was founded.

00:38:58.099 --> 00:39:02.519
Oh my gosh. That's interesting. It's so crazy.

00:39:03.130 --> 00:39:05.510
That that year is something you remember because

00:39:05.510 --> 00:39:10.829
it's car related. It's fun. Dodge. Car? Yep.

00:39:10.989 --> 00:39:15.090
Okay. I thought you were like, just to specify,

00:39:15.190 --> 00:39:18.090
I said Dodge. I'm like, yeah. The Dodge Brothers.

00:39:19.050 --> 00:39:21.570
I think they were inspired by Ford and the Model

00:39:21.570 --> 00:39:24.469
T's success. Oh. Decided to make their own car

00:39:24.469 --> 00:39:29.309
company. Do a little like competitiveness. Anyways.

00:39:29.610 --> 00:39:34.059
Very cool. They built a 125 -foot steel perimeter

00:39:34.059 --> 00:39:37.159
lighthouse with two wooden keeper's dwellings

00:39:37.159 --> 00:39:39.480
on either side, built a few hundred feet north

00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:42.880
of the existing light. Gorgeous. Yeah. Absolutely

00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:45.380
gorgeous. It is nice. We like skeleton lighthouses.

00:39:45.380 --> 00:39:49.800
Yeah, how would you describe these keeper's dwellings?

00:39:50.119 --> 00:39:53.039
Like houses on Cape Cod, or not Cape Cod. They're

00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:55.219
not like this. Outer Banks. Like where they're

00:39:55.219 --> 00:39:57.920
on stilts. They're on stilts, but then it's also

00:39:57.920 --> 00:40:05.880
like... Too much roof is what I'm thinking. That's

00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:09.000
the vibe. Okay. I'm getting big hats, big hats.

00:40:09.699 --> 00:40:12.780
It was first lit in September, 1905 with a third

00:40:12.780 --> 00:40:15.500
order lens. So we went a little bit up in power

00:40:15.500 --> 00:40:19.280
and had six flashes every 30 seconds with two

00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:21.900
seconds between each flash. So it was like really

00:40:21.900 --> 00:40:25.099
quick, quick ish flashes and then like space

00:40:25.099 --> 00:40:27.539
in between. So kind of special. I haven't seen

00:40:27.539 --> 00:40:29.869
it anywhere else. Yeah, it's cool. Skeleton Tower

00:40:29.869 --> 00:40:32.710
served next to the darkened original tower until

00:40:32.710 --> 00:40:40.849
1933 when a decline in shipper shipping. I'm

00:40:40.849 --> 00:40:44.150
going down. We're having a tough time. Decline

00:40:44.150 --> 00:40:48.070
in shipping rendered it unnecessary. The short

00:40:48.070 --> 00:40:51.610
tower. No, the short tower was dark since this

00:40:51.610 --> 00:40:53.670
tower was. Oh, oh. Yeah, and then they were like,

00:40:53.769 --> 00:40:56.309
we're done. But here's a picture of the close

00:40:56.309 --> 00:40:58.679
proximity of the two towers. That's cool. Yeah,

00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:01.000
the stripey one stayed there. They didn't demo

00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:04.860
it. And it didn't fall over. Apparently, the

00:41:04.860 --> 00:41:09.340
propping with the bricks was enough to keep the

00:41:09.340 --> 00:41:11.820
lighthouse from going down. But you can see how

00:41:11.820 --> 00:41:13.880
close it is to the water's edge. They did a good

00:41:13.880 --> 00:41:16.699
job deciding to move it back. But apparently,

00:41:16.860 --> 00:41:20.860
it was not necessary. It's crazy. So at that

00:41:20.860 --> 00:41:25.699
point, they dismantled the steel tower. and shipped

00:41:25.699 --> 00:41:29.119
it to South Fox Island, which I believe is Lake

00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:32.699
Michigan or like somewhere in Michigan, where

00:41:32.699 --> 00:41:35.480
it was lit again and still is to this day. Hey,

00:41:35.579 --> 00:41:38.260
cool. So it just moved over. And over the following

00:41:38.260 --> 00:41:40.400
decades, the island was split up by purchases

00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:43.360
of private owners, the state of Georgia, some

00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:45.780
environmental agencies for research, like all

00:41:45.780 --> 00:41:48.659
that just, you know, sold off to little pieces.

00:41:50.030 --> 00:41:53.429
1998, the original lighthouse, oil house, and

00:41:53.429 --> 00:41:55.809
cistern were carefully restored for almost half

00:41:55.809 --> 00:41:58.409
a million dollars and were relit after almost

00:41:58.409 --> 00:42:02.369
a century in September of 1998. So we got like

00:42:02.369 --> 00:42:06.489
new owners and they decided to do a deep restoration.

00:42:06.809 --> 00:42:10.250
I pulled up a picture of before and after. So

00:42:10.250 --> 00:42:12.769
at that point, all the paint had been worn away.

00:42:12.849 --> 00:42:17.949
We had lots of rusting, no doors. The oil house

00:42:17.949 --> 00:42:21.170
had no roof, just brick. Like, really. Not good.

00:42:21.469 --> 00:42:24.349
Just, I'm surprised it only took half a million

00:42:24.349 --> 00:42:26.550
dollars to restore this thing. That is really

00:42:26.550 --> 00:42:28.730
surprising. Surprised by that. And the stairs

00:42:28.730 --> 00:42:31.829
were wooden in the first, like, normally we see.

00:42:31.829 --> 00:42:33.730
The structure must have been an outstanding shape.

00:42:33.889 --> 00:42:37.750
Yeah. When we see spiral stairs, we usually see

00:42:37.750 --> 00:42:40.750
them iron, and they were wood. I just think that's

00:42:40.750 --> 00:42:43.690
special. I've never seen wood stairs in any lighthouse,

00:42:43.949 --> 00:42:46.219
I don't think. Because you would think. they'd

00:42:46.219 --> 00:42:48.119
be in danger. The picture I pulled up was before

00:42:48.119 --> 00:42:50.840
they painted them. Now they're painted. I wish

00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:52.059
they would have just stained them. They look

00:42:52.059 --> 00:42:55.119
so good. Pretty cool. Nice. Good for them. I

00:42:55.119 --> 00:42:58.380
know. It's doing everybody else a favor by doing

00:42:58.380 --> 00:43:00.920
that. So is this a society that has management

00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:05.400
of the lighthouse? I don't know. Or is there

00:43:05.400 --> 00:43:07.280
public access, I guess, is the real question?

00:43:07.940 --> 00:43:12.469
Only if you purchase a tour. Because it's on

00:43:12.469 --> 00:43:17.769
private land. Sure. So who owns Sapello Island

00:43:17.769 --> 00:43:22.610
Lighthouse? I'm pretty sure it's the state of

00:43:22.610 --> 00:43:25.989
Georgia. Managed by the Georgia Department of

00:43:25.989 --> 00:43:30.210
Natural Resources. Cool. Oh, approximately 97

00:43:30.210 --> 00:43:33.590
% of Sapello Island is owned by the state of

00:43:33.590 --> 00:43:36.090
Georgia and managed by the DNR. Okay, so the

00:43:36.090 --> 00:43:40.530
state of Georgia owns it. Yeah. Cool beans. Hog

00:43:40.530 --> 00:43:45.639
Hammock. Oh, my gosh. 2002, an observation tower

00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:49.699
was built on the 1905 Tower Foundation, so they

00:43:49.699 --> 00:43:53.360
just did a little reusing there. I have a picture

00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:56.280
of that, too. It's nothing pretty. It's just

00:43:56.280 --> 00:43:59.420
for functionality. Yeah, it's not as... And if

00:43:59.420 --> 00:44:02.039
you can climb the lighthouse and see from there,

00:44:02.179 --> 00:44:04.440
then why would you need an observation tower?

00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:12.400
That's the question. 2011. Archaeologists. Archaeologists.

00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:18.199
Suggest. I don't even know what we're referencing

00:44:18.199 --> 00:44:22.119
anymore. What is that? Graham Hancock, I believe.

00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:27.280
Oh, I wouldn't know. From the Netflix show. Let's

00:44:27.280 --> 00:44:29.380
see if I can think of it later. Okay. Yeah, it's.

00:44:29.460 --> 00:44:33.400
Oh, what is it? Yeah, I won't be able to remember.

00:44:33.800 --> 00:44:36.119
Anyway, they unearthed the foundation of the

00:44:36.119 --> 00:44:38.880
original Keeper's Cottage, which at that point.

00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:41.900
And since history, the location hadn't been known.

00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:45.280
Because whenever it was demoed, it just was covered

00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:48.960
up by sand. And they never had an actual marker

00:44:48.960 --> 00:44:51.260
for where it had been in the first place. So

00:44:51.260 --> 00:44:53.980
as time went on, nobody actually knew where the

00:44:53.980 --> 00:44:56.400
house had once been. Besides looking at photos.

00:44:56.440 --> 00:44:58.260
And even then, it's like, you can't really tell

00:44:58.260 --> 00:45:01.760
exactly where it is. So it was kind of a big

00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:04.940
deal. Finding it was under a bunch of sand. And

00:45:04.940 --> 00:45:06.820
for some reason, they just realized. So they

00:45:06.820 --> 00:45:10.159
found the footings? The foundation. Yeah. Cool.

00:45:10.539 --> 00:45:14.639
Yeah. Cool. They're like, here lies the house.

00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:17.420
That is a pretty photo. Isn't that nice? Nice

00:45:17.420 --> 00:45:19.820
little picture of our current lighthouse with

00:45:19.820 --> 00:45:23.599
the beautiful coastline of Georgia, which I didn't

00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:25.559
realize wasn't a beach, but it is sand. You can

00:45:25.559 --> 00:45:29.179
tell it's sand. Nowadays, you can take a ferry

00:45:29.179 --> 00:45:31.699
to the island to see all that it has to offer

00:45:31.699 --> 00:45:35.260
because Sapelo Island's not just the lighthouse.

00:45:35.420 --> 00:45:37.599
Like, you know, a lot of cases. The lighthouse

00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:39.280
is the only thing you can see on an island because

00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:41.960
it's tiny. Yeah. But this one's big enough and

00:45:41.960 --> 00:45:44.280
has so much rich history that you get to learn

00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:48.500
about. So you can go and see, they have like,

00:45:48.639 --> 00:45:52.980
you go to Hog Hammock and you go to like the

00:45:52.980 --> 00:45:55.380
nature reserve and there's just all kinds of

00:45:55.380 --> 00:45:57.780
fun things you can see. Be a nice visit. I know.

00:45:58.159 --> 00:45:59.760
There's a, I can't remember what it's called.

00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:01.559
I think there's several of them, but there's

00:46:01.559 --> 00:46:05.960
one I found an island in Georgia. Okay. Or South

00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:08.679
Carolina. I have to take it back now. I think

00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:10.739
it's South Carolina. Oh. But it's an island.

00:46:10.820 --> 00:46:13.119
It's a private island. It's all the neighborhoods

00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:15.679
and golf courses. And it's a golf resort. That's

00:46:15.679 --> 00:46:17.900
the whole point is it's a resort for like family.

00:46:18.320 --> 00:46:21.380
It's like all the houses are like Airbnbs. Every

00:46:21.380 --> 00:46:24.219
single house. There's only golf carts. And then

00:46:24.219 --> 00:46:26.139
there's like three golf courses, four golf courses.

00:46:26.440 --> 00:46:29.940
So it's like a vacation type of thing. But all

00:46:29.940 --> 00:46:31.920
that, it was just a beautiful island with the

00:46:31.920 --> 00:46:33.719
same type of coastline. That's what I was thinking.

00:46:33.980 --> 00:46:37.659
This would make a good golf course. Yeah. What

00:46:37.659 --> 00:46:41.880
is it? Lynx? Lynx style. Yeah. And the best part

00:46:41.880 --> 00:46:44.300
is that Sapelo Island Lighthouse is the second

00:46:44.300 --> 00:46:47.619
oldest brick lighthouse in the United States.

00:46:47.860 --> 00:46:50.119
Really? Yes. Because if you think about it, it's

00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:52.699
1819. Yeah, yeah. I think it's 1820. 18. It was

00:46:52.699 --> 00:46:56.880
first lit, so pretty old. Do we know the oldest

00:46:56.880 --> 00:47:02.559
offhand? No. I can research. Oldest brick lighthouse

00:47:02.559 --> 00:47:09.719
in the United States. Answer is Sandy Hook Lighthouse.

00:47:09.960 --> 00:47:12.219
Oh, yeah. We know Sandy Hook. Yeah. We were so

00:47:12.219 --> 00:47:17.820
close to that. Wait. I'm thinking Sandy Neck.

00:47:18.159 --> 00:47:22.639
That's Cape Cod, which we didn't go see. Yep.

00:47:23.420 --> 00:47:27.960
Unfortunate. Drove right by. Silly geese. We

00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:29.900
were seeing too many other lighthouses. Anyway,

00:47:29.980 --> 00:47:31.960
I read that you can only get to the lighthouse

00:47:31.960 --> 00:47:35.539
by ferry, but I also saw that Reynolds back in

00:47:35.539 --> 00:47:39.699
the 50s built a vehicle slash pedestrian walkway

00:47:39.699 --> 00:47:42.260
to the island just to make it easier to get back

00:47:42.260 --> 00:47:45.099
and forth. And so I'm wondering if that's gone

00:47:45.099 --> 00:47:48.179
now or if it's only if you live there. I bet

00:47:48.179 --> 00:47:50.880
you it's gone. Okay. It was probably sketchy.

00:47:51.159 --> 00:47:55.199
In the 1950s? Yeah. It's gone. Okay. Oh. There's

00:47:55.199 --> 00:47:58.820
no way. That's too bad. I'd be shocked. Yeah.

00:47:58.860 --> 00:48:01.159
I guess if the ferry is the only way to climb

00:48:01.159 --> 00:48:02.820
the lighthouse, it's probably that there's not

00:48:02.820 --> 00:48:05.420
a lot of access out there. So to climb, you have

00:48:05.420 --> 00:48:08.840
to book a Sappalo Island tour online, which takes

00:48:08.840 --> 00:48:10.539
you on a ferry and shows you all parts of the

00:48:10.539 --> 00:48:12.920
island. Lots of cool history. Stop at Hog Hammock,

00:48:12.920 --> 00:48:14.820
which they said there's only one general store

00:48:14.820 --> 00:48:17.760
so that you go in and you just get like a snack.

00:48:18.539 --> 00:48:21.139
Yeah. I'm sure there's souvenirs. Yeah. Oh, I

00:48:21.139 --> 00:48:24.780
bet so. And a lighthouse climb. which is the

00:48:24.780 --> 00:48:26.860
only way that you get to. That sounds nice. Yeah,

00:48:26.880 --> 00:48:30.219
they really, really zeroed in on the market there.

00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:33.059
The only way you can climb is if you book this

00:48:33.059 --> 00:48:35.800
whole day tour. I'm like, oh, no, it kind of

00:48:35.800 --> 00:48:40.739
makes it hard. That is Sappalo Island Lighthouse.

00:48:41.119 --> 00:48:43.739
Great. Thank you. That was really nice. Episode

00:48:43.739 --> 00:48:46.460
83. Lots of cool history. I like it whenever

00:48:46.460 --> 00:48:48.699
we get to focus more on other things, but also

00:48:48.699 --> 00:48:50.199
have something to do with the lighthouse. Yeah,

00:48:50.260 --> 00:48:51.900
I'm sorry. I've wandered a little bit. No, no,

00:48:51.900 --> 00:48:54.199
it's good. I'm real tired and all that. It's

00:48:54.199 --> 00:48:58.059
a fun part of our podcast is that we wander and

00:48:58.059 --> 00:49:04.579
not all who wander are lost. True. Anything else

00:49:04.579 --> 00:49:06.360
you want to add? I really don't have anything.

00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:14.019
What was that show? Oh, no. Oh, Netflix show.

00:49:14.780 --> 00:49:19.599
Graham. Ancient Civilizations. Really? Yeah.

00:49:19.659 --> 00:49:24.449
Is there another one? I did just kind of... I

00:49:24.449 --> 00:49:27.889
don't think that's right. No, no, it's got to

00:49:27.889 --> 00:49:32.809
be. I think there's two, potentially. No, it's

00:49:32.809 --> 00:49:35.949
Ancient Apocalypse. Ancient Apocalypse. Let's

00:49:35.949 --> 00:49:38.650
go, memory. I got Ancient. I couldn't get it,

00:49:38.690 --> 00:49:40.409
but I knew it was not that one. You know what

00:49:40.409 --> 00:49:44.070
happened is I put Netflix show, and then I produced

00:49:44.070 --> 00:49:46.530
Ancient from my head. So I typed Ancient, and

00:49:46.530 --> 00:49:49.250
it said Civilizations. So then I was like, that's

00:49:49.250 --> 00:49:51.530
it. So we're talking about this show. We watched

00:49:51.530 --> 00:49:54.420
it. We just... this character gets more and more

00:49:54.420 --> 00:49:58.440
unbelievable. Well, he's a guy. He's not a character.

00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:02.019
He's apparently been ostracized from the archeological

00:50:02.019 --> 00:50:05.539
community. He disagrees with many theories of

00:50:05.539 --> 00:50:08.760
how things were. Yeah, and he has a chip on his

00:50:08.760 --> 00:50:11.920
shoulder about it. And an accent, which for us

00:50:11.920 --> 00:50:14.400
simple folk is really fun. Anytime he mentions

00:50:14.400 --> 00:50:17.340
what's widely accepted, he says, archaeologists

00:50:17.340 --> 00:50:20.460
suggest. Yeah, he never gives them any like,

00:50:20.940 --> 00:50:24.360
They have founded, they say, they've proven.

00:50:25.179 --> 00:50:29.599
Archaeologists suggest 17 million years is long

00:50:29.599 --> 00:50:32.119
enough to erode this hill. How could they possibly

00:50:32.119 --> 00:50:37.179
have said that? However, recent research. Yet

00:50:37.179 --> 00:50:39.300
his claims get more and more outlandish as he

00:50:39.300 --> 00:50:41.360
goes along. In the first few episodes, we're

00:50:41.360 --> 00:50:44.500
like, this is cool. We were in. Yeah, of course.

00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:46.820
The last episode, it took us so long to watch

00:50:46.820 --> 00:50:48.940
it because we just knew it was going to be. like

00:50:48.940 --> 00:50:51.780
the epitome of the downfall that we had seen.

00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:54.280
This is just our own personal opinion. It's all

00:50:54.280 --> 00:50:56.739
opinion, yeah. Entertainment only. Absolutely

00:50:56.739 --> 00:50:59.340
watch it. Chime in in the comments. Yeah, let

00:50:59.340 --> 00:51:03.579
us know. If you're Graham Hancock. Let us know.

00:51:03.619 --> 00:51:05.880
Thumbs up if you liked Ancient Apocalypse. We're

00:51:05.880 --> 00:51:09.599
going to be like, lighthouse enthusiast. Okay,

00:51:12.059 --> 00:51:13.860
well that's all I got. That was really nice.

00:51:13.940 --> 00:51:15.980
I appreciate it. your work thanks and i look

00:51:15.980 --> 00:51:18.400
forward to the next episode which is mine right

00:51:18.400 --> 00:51:21.619
no i have one more okay yours yeah episode 84

00:51:21.619 --> 00:51:24.619
will be mine and then you'll be coming in 85

00:51:24.619 --> 00:51:27.320
very exciting you'll get to use that history

00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:30.539
that you prepped a while ago that's right so

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