Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is the tallest in the nation and a famous symbol of North Carolina. The beacon of light can be seen some 20-miles out to sea and has warned sailors for more than 100 years of the Treacherous Diamond Shoals, the shallow sandbars which extend some 14 miles into the ocean off Cape Hatteras. It has the nickname of “the Big Barber Poleâ€. It was built with 1,250,0900 bricks baked in kilns along the James River in Virginia. Its walls at the base are 14 feet of solid masonry and narrow to eight feet at the top. Weighing 6,250 tons, the lighthouse was built with no pilings under it—just a foundation built of heart pine. Towering 196 feet from the base to the top brick and then topped with an iron superstructure it become the tallest brick lighthouse on the American coast 1t 208 feet and at a cost of $`155,000.
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