CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1Colonial Lights

CHAPTER 2Casualties of War

CHAPTER 3Lights of a New Nation

CHAPTER 4Economy Above All

CHAPTER 5Europeans Take the Lead

CHAPTER 6The “Rule of Ignorant and Incompetent Men”

CHAPTER 7Brighter Lights

CHAPTER 8“Everything Being Recklessly Broken”

CHAPTER 9From Board to Service

CHAPTER 10Keepers and Their Lives

CHAPTER 11Lighthouse Heroes

CHAPTER 12Marvels of Engineering and Construction

CHAPTER 13Of Birds and Eggs

CHAPTER 14A Cruel Wind

CHAPTER 15The New Keepers

Epilogue

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

LIGHTHOUSE ORGANIZATIONS

LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUMS

NOTES

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

INDEX