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Title
Barnegat Inlet Lighthouse Nj
Artist
Skip Willits
Medium
Photograph - Epson Lustre Paper
Description
This is the lighthouse at Branegat Inlet in New Jersey. This is my number one seller on Fine Art America with the largest number of views and comments. Winslow Lewis built the first sentinel on New JerseyοΏ½s Barnegat Inlet in 1835. This figure held the patent on the Argand lamp and parabolic reflector system used on the early lights in the US until the middle 1850οΏ½s. The original light, only 45 feet high, lasted only 20 years and was replaced in 1859 by the current 163-foot tower. One ships captain described the initial light as οΏ½Indifferent...and indistinguishable from another shipοΏ½s light in poor weatherοΏ½.
Lieutenant George Meade, a lighthouse board inspector and in 1863 the commander of the Army of the Potomac, was the whistle blower on the crumbling first towerοΏ½s inadequacies. He pointed out that the initial structure was nothing more than an inlet light at a location that deserved better. Meade felt that the location called for a major light and insisted that a first order Fresnel lamp be installed to guide ships at sea. The keeper lit the big lens on January 1, 1859.
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March 29th, 2011
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Viewed 64,465 Times - Last Visitor from Cambridge, MA on 03/28/2024 at 5:45 AM
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Gettysburg, PA - United States
I totally understand why itβs your best seller on FAA. An absolute stunner, Skip. - Mike (V/F)
Seattle, WA - United States
Excellent work, fantastic moody sky and illuminating light on the lighthouse! l/f
Hampshire, Ha - United Kingdom
Simply beautiful - love how the rays of light fall on the lighthouse LF
Fort Dodge, IA - United States
Unbelievable capture, Skip! Love that heavenly light pouring down over the lighthouse! Exceptional! F/L
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