Ocracoke Light

Ocracoke Light - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Ocracoke Talk Like A Tarheel , from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2013-02-05. Light was built in Hyde County, on Ocracoke Island, Ocracoke, North Carolina in 1823 by Massachusetts builder Noah Porter. The lighthouse stands tall. Its diameter narrows from at the base to at its peak. The lighthouse was built to help guide ships through Ocracoke Inlet into Pamlico Sound. Read more on Wikipedia

type: lighthouse
date from: 1823

Source: en.wikipedia.org