Cape Hatteras Vacation Rentals

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is the tallest in the nation and famous symbol of North Carolina. The lighthouse site houses a visitors center that is open throughout the year and houses displays on the island's maritime history. The beacon from the 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 out into the ocean off Cape Hatteras.

It is said that the engineer who was originally assigned the task of painting North Carolina's lighthouses, got the plans mixed up and the diamond-shaped figures, suitable for warning traffic away from Diamond Shoals, went to Cape Lookout and the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse received the spiral striping, thereby forever gaining the nickname ''The Big Barber Pole.'

It was built with 1,250,000 bricks baked in kilns along the James River in Virginia and brought in scows into Cape Creek where it was hauled by oxen one mile to the building site in Buxton. 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 at 208 feet and at a cost of $155,000.00.

Cape Hatteras Vacation Rentals
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Latest Cape Hatteras Vacation News
Five classic, affordable US vacations USA Today - Jul 17, 2008 Follow Highway 12 even further south into the seashore, and you'll see the island's most recognizable lighthouse, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. ... St. Louis Post-Dispatch Genuine beach towns highlight Hatteras Island's simple lifestyle St. Louis Post-Dispatch,  United States - Jul 13, 2008 Like the championship surfing beach, it is near the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. Surf fishing is very popular on Hatteras Island, and tackle and bait stores ... Gas prices, smoke, driving bans - Hatteras feels the pinch The Virginian-Pilot, VA - Jul 5, 2008 "We've alarmed people to the point they think beaches are closed not just on Cape Hatteras, but Nags Head and Kill Devil Hills," she said. Drought Update, Rain Prospects AccuWeather.com - Jul 10, 2008 I didn't mention it in the videos, but we'll be watching for some sort of low to spin up close to Cape Hatteras over the next few days and head north, ... Sunflowers help wishes come true Waterbury Republican American, CT - Jul 18, 2008 Her family went on a week-long vacation to Cape Hatteras, NC, six years ago through Make-A-Wish. Tanner, who has cerebral palsy and cannot speak, ... Jogger's death from lightning shakes Beach vacationers The Virginian-Pilot, VA - Jul 7, 2008 July 1997 - Waldo Morales, 18, of Nags Head, NC, killed while sitting on the beach near the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. By Aaron Applegate The thunderstorm ... Emergence of Adventure Sports Resorts; Why Are Hotel Waterparks ... Hospitality Net - Jul 3, 2008 In the USA, Pipeline and Sunset Beach on the north shore of Oahu rank among the highest --- followed by Blacks Beach, LaJolla, California; Cape Hatteras ... San Luis Obispo councilman questions price for Chinatown project land San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA - Jul 1, 2008 He will be participating in tonight’s meeting from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, where he is attending a family reunion. He said he will watch a live ... Top National News Right Now KXAN-TV, TX - Jul 21, 2008 Meanwhile, the center of Tropical Storm Cristobal has moved off nearly 190 miles east-northeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. ...
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