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Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. For nearly 150 years, the Piedras Blancas ...

Contractors hired by the National Park Service are midway through the delicate two-week task of reassembling the original 1858 lens of the Fire Island Lighthouse. The 9,000-pound lens was removed from ...

A lens manufactured in France in 1902 is shining high atop Montauk Point Lighthouse once again. Earlier this month the U.S. Coast Guard relit the clamshell-shaped Fresnel lens, which guided mariners ...

The Point San Luis Lighthouse’s original 4 th order lens has been around since 1878. The light no longer shines but is now on display at the top of Point San Luis. Cleaning a 144-year-old lens takes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just under a month after the restoration and preservation of the Tybee Lighthouse was completed, a prism has shattered. According ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the early nineteenth century, ...

When you clean a 147-year-old First Order Fresnel lighthouse lens, you don’t just grab the Windex and a rag and start to scrub. As seven volunteers learned in Cambria last month from expert lampist ...

John Hill likens the first-order Fresnel lens in the lighthouse at Naval Air Station Pensacola to a fabergé egg. "They aren't made anymore. It is one of only 10 left in the U.S. There is no putting a ...

DETROIT (AP) — A judge has ordered a Michigan man to surrender two antique lighthouse lenses worth at least $600,000, months after the collector lost a court battle with the federal government. Steve ...

Just under a month after the restoration and preservation of the Tybee Lighthouse was completed, a prism has shattered. According to Tybee Island Historical Society Director Sarah Jones, part of the ...