Bodie Island Light Station is getting beautified
From hamptonroads.com Bodie Island Light Station is getting beautified | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com BODIE ISLAND Nearly every corner of the Bodie Island Light Station site will soon be buzzing with restoration projects. Three historic buildings that were on the oceanfront off the highway were relocated last week to the station’s entrance road in preparation for [...]
Funds approved to restore Bodie Island light
From WRAL.COM MANTEO, N.C. — The federal budget includes $3 million to restore the deteriorating Bodie Island Lighthouse on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk reported Thursday that the money is the estimated amount for a complete restoration of the 1872 lighthouse structure north of Oregon Inlet. Bodie Island light was damaged when [...]
Bodie Island Lighthouse loses out on new windows
From hamptonroads.com: A sad depiction of the collapsed New Canal Lighthouse may have made the New Orleans landmark a winner. But unfortunately for the Outer Banks, it also makes the Bodie Island Lighthouse a loser. One of the 12 semi-finalists in the JELD-WEN Reliable Lighthouse Restoration Initiative, the New Canal has been chosen as the [...]
Bodie Lighthouse is a finalist for door and window repair contest!
Thanks to all who voted for Bodie Lighthouse in the Jeld-Wen window and door repair contest. Your votes paid off, because Bodie is one of 3 finalist in the contest. This is great news for a lighthouse badly in need of repairs. The link to the contest site is below: http://www.jeld-wen.com/lighthouse/index.cfm They also have a [...]
Bodie Lighthouse snubbed again in federal budget
From hamptonroads.com: Year after year, the Bodie Island Lighthouse has been in line to get funding for a complete restoration. Each time, it has been shoved aside. Shut out once again in the federal budget that was signed by President Bush on Dec. 26, the 136-year-old tower is showing its age, with corroding metalwork, broken [...]
Bodie Island Lighthouse reopens after repairs
From hamptonroads.com: The base of the Bodie Island Lighthouse will open to the public Tuesday for the first time in three years, thanks to a $100,000 emergency restoration project recently completed, the National Park Service announced Friday. The lighthouse closed to visitors in 2004 after chunks of cast iron fell from the balcony and top [...]
Bodie Lighthouse
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } bodie–6, originally uploaded by cdawson. Here is a picture I wanted to share with everyone.