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Service solve this problem?
T. Oregon cºnd Colifornia coast is so treacherous that the
mouth of the Columbiq River was known as "The Graveyard of the
Pacific." McIny soilors lost their lives when their ships suddenly ran
upon ragged rocks in stormy weqther. Whot did people do to keep
ships and their crews safe from a shipwreck death?
I, the 1920s only doring people flew planes, trying to set re-
cords for the longest distance, around the world flights, or crossing
the continent. The United States Postol Service hord Cºnother ided for
cross-country flying. It wanted to send mail cogst to coast, foster thqn
it could by rail. But that was dangerous—it was hard for pilots to tell
where they were cºnd they couldn't fly at night. How did the Postal
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Yaquinq Hedd Lighthouse kept ships from going aground off the rugged
Oregon Coast. Its light pattern changed in the mid-1930s. Your instructions are
to investigate this curious incident further.
KEEP Yaquina HEAD LIGHT BURNING!
By Mike Thomas
Life wasn't eqsy for lighthouse
keepers—the people who kept the
light burning qt Yaquinq Hedd
Lighthouse. Their first CInd most
important duty was to make sure
the light never went out. They had
to do this qtdll times, in dll weqther
qnd qt all costs. If they didn't, ships
Detectives: To find the solution to this History Mystery code,
use the CODE BREAKERS key from page 8 to decode the
secret message along the bottom of these pages. Start here
might crash on the rocks qnd people
might die.
The keepers also had to op-
erote cºnd repoir the equipment
thqt kept the light burning. At
first, this mednt lighting q 4-wick
lamp that was fueled by lord oil. In
1873 the Yaquinq Hedd light had q
steady glow. During the mid-1930s
See YAQUINA HEAD, page 2.
THE BUREAU of LAND MANAGEMENT's CULTURALHERITAGE GROUP. SPRING 2007
Pºdras BLANCAs
PRourcial SeaMEN
By Derrick Baldwin
The year was 1876. Three
men worked throughout the night
to keep the Piedros Bloncos light-
house operating. The lighthouse
stood 150 feet CIbove the PCIcific
Ocedn. The lighthouse bedcon pro-
tected sqilors from the dangers of
Coliforniq's Sqn Simeon Boy, eight
miles to the South. The light could
be seen twenty-five miles Cºwdy
on q clear night. For thirty years
Captain Lorin Vincent Thorndyke
wds in charge. During thqt time not
one shipwreck occurred.
Captain Thorndyke and his
men didn't have many visitors. Pie-
drds Blancois was q remote spot on
the Colifornicſ coorst. Good rodds
were uncommon CInd ships rarely
docked qt the light stortion. There
were no days off qt CI lighthouse.
However, the men were not
by themselves. The families of the
staff lived in three lorge homes qt
the light station. The Captain's two
sons were born at the light station.
It must have been quite on CIdven-
ture to grow up in C lighthouse.
There were no stores qt Pie-
droſs Bloncos. You could not run
down to the local gos station for
q snock. Everything the families
needed drrived by bodt. These
boots come only q few times eqch
yedr and no one knew exqctly
when they would get there. Con
you imagine how exciting it must
hqve been to wortch the supply ship
dock qmd unlood qll the things you
See KEEPERS, page 3.
Visit our Kids Page on the web at
www.ilm.gov/ineritage/adventures
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A huge concrete arrow in the middle
of nowhere. Whort could it medin?
ARCHAEologistſ
FINDS UGE
ARRowheat!
By David Valentine
One day while out looking for
drchdeological sites, I hiked to the
top of q hill, qnd there was the big-
gest "qrrowhead." I had ever found!
It was huge, q whopping fifty-two
feet long
Idmondrchdeologistemployed
by the Buredu of Lond McIndgement
(BLM) in Nevcidd.
What I mostly do is make sure
that projects on BLM lands do not
destroy important drchdeological or
historic sites. Sometimes I know if
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sites Gre in a project dred, but often
I do not. If I don't know whoſt is in CI
project dred, I sometimes get to go
out cºnd look to see whoſt's there. This
is the best port of my job because it
means I get to hike ground outdoors
looking for evidence of drchdeology.
See ARROWHEAD, page 2.
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The DUCLoN Boys:
JAMMIN' AT LEAGLE
By Mike Thomas
One of the most interesting
and well-known lighthouses in the
state of Wisconsin was the Eagle
Bluff Lighthouse. But as interest-
ing as Eagle Bluff Lighthouse was,
seven boys who lived there were
maybe even more interesting.
Eagle Bluff Lighthouse was
built in 1868. When it wors con-
structed, the dred surrounding it
was q wilderness. Its tower is forty-
three feet toll. On d clear, dark
night sqilors could see its light CIS
for as sixteen miles Cºwdy.
From 1883 until 1918, CI mon
normed Williom Duclon cºnd his
wife Julio lived qt Edgle Bluff.
Their purpose was to tend the light.
The Duclons had seven sons. When
the family first moved there, there
were no schools neqrby, so Julid
educated the boys herself. She also
tought the boys to love music, CInd
they ledrned to play several differ-
ent instruments.
The boys ledrned to play so
well that they decided to form their
own band. Now keep in mind, this
wds over 100 years crgo. In those
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days, q seven-piece, all-boy band
was not an everyday thing! The
Duclon Boys (I'm not sure if that's
what they called themselves, but
it does have sort of q nice "ring" to
it, doesn't it?) become good enough
to begin entertaining at different
events throughout their county.
One of the instruments the
boys played very well was a beauti-
ful rosewood piqno. Like all pionos
during that time, their pid no was
made of wood, steel qmd ivory.
It was big qnd very hedvy. But,
whenever the boys traveled to
perform they took their own instru-
ments—including the huge piqno.
Can you imagine how difficult that
must have been? How do you sup-
pose they moved it? I'm certain
they must have moved it by horse
qnd wagon. But con you imagine
having to corry it from the house to
the wagon, and then having to lift it
into the wagon? They reqlly must
have loved their music!
Being brothers, we can be
sure the Duclon Boys had their
differences. And since there were
seven of them, I'm sure reheqrsqls
See JAMMIN' next page.
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From the 1920s to the 1940s pilots watched for these big 30 to 70 foot, concrete
arrows, placed every 10 miles. Detectives, how useful do you think these were
to the pilots?
ARROWHEAD from page 1.
One thing Idlways hope to find
is on qrrowheq:d. Arrowheq:ds tend
to be small, usually dround on inch
or two long. Arrowheqds dire the
tips of CIncient specirs qnd Cºrrows
left behind by Native Americans.
They often used stone such dis
obsidion, chert, cigate, or bosqlt.
Sometimes they left broken arrow-
hedds in villages qnd comps. They
may have left drrowheqds behind
CIS CIn offering, or perhaps they sim-
ply lost the qrrowheads.
Arrowheqds dreqn important
source of information. The style of
on qrrowheqd con give on drchde-
ologist on ided of how old it is qnd
which tribe mode it.
I wondered who could have
made this huge "orrowhead"? What
wds it doing up on top of this hill?
I began to qpply my drch-
deological training to the problem.
Some people might call it detective
training. The size was qm important
clue that it wasn't made by q Native
Americorn—who could've thrown
it? There wors. CInother clue thqt it
wasn't terribly oncient. Although it
wds mode of stone, it was concrete
instedd of obsidiqn or chert. No
tribes hord cement mixers before the
20*-century. With this evidence, I
deduced that it was foirly recently
mode, qmd not q remnant of q hunt-
ing tool or weqpon. Cleqrly, I need-
ed to do some library research. ºf
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YAQUINA HEAD from page 1.
it become q flashing pattern: "two
seconds on, two seconds off, two
seconds on, fourteen seconds off,
and then repeqt."
Detectives Alert: Why do you
suppose they changed the poſt-
tern?
Taking care of the big Fres-
nel lens at Yaquinq Hedd also
took or lot of work. A Fresnel Lens
has many, big, gloss lenses. If you
were q keeper qmd you wanted
to cleq n it, you would have to
go to the top of the lighthouse
tower, ninety-three feet above the
ground. Every time you went to
the top you would have to climb
q spiral staircase with 114 steps
that led to the light. Kids (qnd visi-
tors) were not dllowed to climb the
stairs, so the lightkeeper's kids
didn't have to cleq n the lens.
So if you wanted to be d light-
house keeper, you qlso hold to be CI
cqrpenter, q pointer, Cºnd q bross
polisher. And you would have hold
to do qll this while entertaining
mony visitors.
In 1966 the government re-
placed the light qt the Yaquinq
Hedd Lighthouse with qm quto-
mated one. The new light was q lot
more powerful thqn the one before
it. People could see it from nine-
teen miles dway. With the coming
of the huge qutomoted light, the
dqys of the light keepers qnd their
families had come to qm end. …;
ARRows PoinT To ANswers
By David Valentine
After some library resedrch, I
found some qmswers to questions
qbout the biggest "qrrowhead." I
hold ever found.
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What? The Postol Service?
Why did they make the arrows? In
the eqrly 1920s, dirplanes hadn't
been dround for very long. The Post-
cil Service was experimenting with
using dirplanes to deliver mail. The
Postol Service established routes
along which to fly dirmoil. They
called the routes "qirways." The
See ARROWS POINT next page.
An official air line map. Detectives, get a modern U.S. Map and compare these
routes to Interstate Routes of today, particularly in the West. What do you
Who made the drrows? The
United States Postol Service first
mcide the CIrrows in 1924.
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A modern photo of Piedras Blancas Light Station. The lighthouse "lost its
head" during a fierce storm that damaged the lantern room so badly that the
upper portion of the tower was removed. A local group, the Friends of Piedras
Blancas Light, helped construct a modern lantern room for the Fresnel lens at
the Pinedorado grounds on Main Street in Cambrid, California.
28 GATES A DAY-MoRE ADVENTURE
Than RIDING A School Bus
By Derrick Baldwin
Going to school was dinother
CIdventure for the kids of Piedrcis
Bloncos. There were no towns neqr-
by. Ronchers ond formers used the
ldnd dround the light station to
rqise beef qnd doiry cattle. There
were kids living on some of the
rqnches. If the children wonted to
go to school they hold to travel CI
great distance. º
For CI time Corptain Thorn-
dyke's oldest son qttended school
in Sqn Simeon. He used q cort CInd
horse to get to qmd from school.
He had to open qmd close fourteen
gates CIs he crossed the ronch land
between the light stortion ond the
school. Thdt medins twenty-eight
times per day he had to get off the
cqrt, open the gate, ride the cort
through the gate, close the gate,
qnd get back on his cort. And you
thought riding the school bus was
CIn Crdventure.
Even qs kids Coptoſin Thorn-
dyke's boys worked in the light-
house. The rotation of the light was
controlled by old fashioned clock
equipment thqt turned the huge
Fresnel lens dround so thqt the
light florshed every fifteen seconds.
The equipment had to be reseteq ch
night qnd the drum thqt rewound
the weights had to be cranked every
hour! The boys often helped their
forther with this chore. The chores
qt Piedrds Blancos were hard work,
but they were q port of doily life.
Piedrcis Bloncos wors isolcited
CInd the work wors hord. Still, how
mony people con sqy they grew up
in q lighthouse? 2;
ARROWS POINT from page 2.
Postdl Service decided thqt pilots
needed to be qble to fly during both
ddy dind night to deliver the mail
quickly.
So they come up with the ided
of building drrows qmd bed cons.
They built the towers in the middle
of the concrete drrows. These gi-
CInt CIrrows were the foundqtions
for electrical bed cons. The postol
service hired people to turn on
the bed cons every night to guide
dirmoil pilots flying dirways in the
dqrk. These people were q lot like
lighthouse keepers.
I still hold more questions—
How for qpqrt were the qrrows?
Did the drrows all point in the
scIme direction? WCIs the Postol
Service qlways in charge of the
bed cons? What did the Department
of Commerce do to improve the
bedcon system? You can help me
find the qmswers qt www.blm.gov/
heritage/adventures. 2:3:
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By Mike Thomas
The worters of the Greqt Lokes
Gre treqcherous. Shipping is CIn im-
portant way of getting goods from
one place to qmother. In the 1860s
mony lighthouses were built to
light the way sq.fely into port.
Compared to most Wisconsin
homes qt the time, the house qt
Edgle Bluff Lighthouse seemed al-
most like CI mansion. Most pioneer
formilies lived in small log cobins
thoſt hold one or two rooms. But the
Eagle Bluff home had a kitchen,
dining/living room, formal parlor,
music room dind even q master bed-
room! The house had q2"floor with
CI large, separate bedroom. In those
dqys it was normal for everyone
(mom, ddd, the kids qnd sometimes
even grandparents) to qll sleep
in the sqme room. So, having its
own bedroom made the Eagle Bluff
home sort of specidl.
One of the best things about
living qt Edgle Bluff was the food.
KEEPERS, from page 1.
would need for the next several
months?
WhcIt wors it like? Whort did
the kids do for fun? Did they have
to go to school? Let's redd the "28
Gates" story. 2;
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ldrge CImounts of food CInd supplies
every year. The families received
borrels of flour, sugar, spices, cured
medits, vinegor, potatoes qmd other
things. There was plenty of game
qnd berries in the woods dround
them, dind q lot of fish in the Boy.
And there was q lot of gorden space
in which to grow fresh vegetables.
The kids probably hq.d to hoe the
weeds ond help with other chores.
But since the lighthouse was
locqted in q wilderness, the formi-
lies lived isolcited lives. Besides
thqt, they worked very hord. Keep-
ing the light burning was a 24 hour-
q-day job. Life was difficult and
challenging. Aside from their own
brothers qnd sisters, the kids had
no ploymotes. The formilies rarely
sqw other people.
Although the Edgle Bluff
Lighthouse residents lived sort of
unusual lives, they dilways focused
on the redson they were there. The
light keepers did their jobvery well.
Their main job was to tend the light,
qnd they never forgot that. The
formilies kept the Eagle Bluff light
shining for CIlmost six decodes,
before it was qutomoted ond no
longer had need of keepers. 2;
The Duclon Boys traveled with a
heavy rosewood piano, similar to this
one. Why would they do this?
JAMMIN", from page 2.
got pretty hedted. Can't you imag-
ine the CIrguments that took place
between the two youngest brothers
qnd the oldest one? (We qll know
whoſt nuisances little brothers con
sometimes be! And we qlso know
whoſt "know-it-dºlls" older brothers
cqn sometimes be!) The boys prob-
qbly drgued about things like who
got to play which instrument. Or
mdybe they qrgued about which
songs they should play on the
upcoming gig, or how they should
dress for it. -
But whoſtever their differ-
ences, the Duclon Boys mondſged
to work them out. They continued
to play for people all throughout
the dred. And I'm sure they were
glad to have the opportunity to do
so. After all (living way out in the
wilderness as they did), playing
those gigs probably was one of the
few fun things they got to do. 2;
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Gateway Partner Lighthouses
For information call 831-372–6105 or visit www.ca.blm.gov/ca/pa/coastal monument.
In addition to Mendocino and Piedras Blancas, the following lighthouse partners serve
as Gateways to California Coastal National Monument.
Find lighthouse information at www.lighthousefriends.com.
© Point Vicente Light Station, Palos Verdes: Contact Point Vicente Visitor Center: 310-377-5370 or
www.palosverdes.com/rpv/recreationparks/PointVicentelnterpretiveCenter.
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© Point Fermin Lighthouse in Point Fermin Park, San Pedro: Call 310-241-0684 or www.sanpedrochamber.com.
º Pigeon Point Light Station in Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park, Contact the park hotline 650-879–2120 or
www.parks.ca.gov.
© Point Arena Light Station, Point Arena: Call the Point Arena Lighthouse and Museum 877-725-4448 or 707-882-2777 or
www.pointarenalighthouse.com.
© Trinidad Head Lighthouse and Trinidad Head Memorial are located near Trinidad, California.
For information about the lighthouse go to www.lighthousefriends.com.
Anticipated future Gateway partners include:
© Point Pinos Lighthouse, Pacific Grove. Call the Pacific Grove Museum
of Natural History, 831-648–5716 or www.pgmuseum.org.
º Battery Point, Crescent City. Call the Del Norte County Historical Society
707-464-3089 or www.delnortehistory.org.
MENDoCINo
PIEDRAS BLANCAs
Mendocino Lighthouse used to
sit 422 feet crbove the sect on the
headland of Cape Mendocino. To
sqve it from slipping down the
hillside, the lighthouse was moved
to Shelter Cove cºnd restored crt McIl
Coombs Park. A docent group man-
ages it for the BLM. It will serve as
the visitor contact stortion for the
CCNM Gateway for the Lost Coast.
Piedrcºs Blancas Light Station: Today the BLM,
the Friends of Piedras Blancas Light Station, and
California State Parks all work together to man-
age and preserve this light station. Contact the
BLM Bakersfield Field Office at (661) 391-6000 or
www.blim.gov/cd/st/en/fo/bakersfield.
PUNTA GORDA
Punta Gordº Lighthouse
is located on a remote, rug-
ged section of the King Range
Nortional Conservation Ared in
Humboldt County, California.
Be prepared for a hard 3 mile
hike through sand on Cooskie
Creek Trail to get to it. Get up-
dated trail information from the
BLM Arcator Field Office ort (707)
986-5400 or www.blm.gov/
cq/st/en/fo/arcata/kingrange.
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qted through q partnership between
BLM, Oregon State Parks, Confeder-
qted Tribes of Siletz Indians, Coquille
Indian Tribe, Curry County Govern-
ment, and the Friends of Cape Blanco.
Contact BLM Coos Bay Field Office at
541-756-0100, or www.blm.gov/
or/districts/coosbay.
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Yaquincy Heckd Light-
house, Oregon's tollest
lighthouse, was built in
1873. It is located within
BLM's Yaquinq Hedd
Outstanding Natural Area.
Park rangers, dressed in
the uniforms of 19" century
lighthouse keepers, ledd
daily tours of the light-
house. Contact 541-574-
3100 or www.blim.gov/or/
resources/recredition/
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BLM Field Office Locations
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BLM National Training Center
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Conservation Area Project Office
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State Boundaries
Major Highways
Grand Staircase-Escalante
National Monument
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PATOs SLAND
Pºrtos Island Light-
house is going through
storbilization. It is lo-
corted ort the west end of
Patos Island adjacent to
Portos Island State Park.
Contact BLM Spokane
District 509-536-1200.
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Turn Point Lighthouse
is going through q three-
phase renovation and
restorqtion. The BLM and
the Turn Point Lighthouse
Preservation Society work
to rqise dwareness, qppreciation, education cºnd
outreach of Northwest Maritime History. Contact
the BLM Spokane District at 509-536-1200 or 360-
468-3754 or Turn Point Lighthouse Preservation
Society at www.tplps.org.
Ecºstern States
Lighthouses
BLM Eqstern States Office
often works with dictive
partners who manage
lighthouses such as Eagle
Bluff, Big Scible Point,
Grand Troverse, Point
Aux Barques, and
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouses.
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse is
q brick red lighthouse that
is part of an 86 acre ared of
public land in Jupiter Inlet,
Florida. A partnership of the
BLM, Palm Beach County,
the Town of Jupiter, and the
Florida History Centerland
Museum ond others morn-
crges the property. Contact
Loxorhortchee River Historical
Society. 561-747-6639 or www.
lrhs.org.
Ecºgle Bluff Lighthouse
wds once home to the Duclon
Boys Band. It is managed by
the Door County Historical
Society. 920–839-2377 or visit
www.eagleblufflighthouse.
org.
Grcºnd Trcºverse Light-
house looks a lot like a big
school house with a fancy bell
tower. It is located in Leeld-
nqu State Park. Contact the
Grand Traverse Lighthouse
Museum 231-386-7195 or www.
grandtraverselighthouse.com.
| BIG SABLE POINT
Big Scible Point Lighthouse
is one of the few Michigan
lighthouses with a tower that
stands over 100 feet toll. Lud-
ington State Park is nearby. It
is managed by the Big Sable
Point Lighthouse Keepers
Association: 231-845-7343 or
visit www.bigsablelighthouse.
org.
POINT AUX BARQUES
Point Aux Barques Light
is located in Lighthouse
County Park in Huron County
Michigan. The Thumb Under-
worter Preserve cºnd the Pointe
Aux Barques Lighthouse and
Lifesaving Station Museums
are located in the lighthouse.
Contact Huron County Parks
989-428-4749 or Pointe Aux
Barques Lighthouse Society
www.pointeduxbarqueslighthouse.
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TIME TRAVELER FINDS ANC
By Robert King, Wayne Rice and
Megg Heath
Did you ever hear about the
most famous lighthouse in the
world? To see it new you would
have to go back in time. How for
back? Twenty-three hundred years
digo to qmcient Egypt! Let's take q
little time travel to Egypt.
On this trip you must find the
Phoros Lighthouse neqr the qncient
city of Alexandrid. Your mystery
question is to find out why it is not
still standing toddy.
Your first time travel stop is
2,300 years digo in Egypt. After hik-
ing dround in d very hot desert you
find the CIncient harbor of Alexan-
drid on the codist of the Mediterror-
neqn Seq. In Alexandrid you find q.
friendly looking mdn selling pottery
qnd you disk him about the Pharos.
He smiles and tells you that you
dre looking for one of the "Seven
Wonders of the Ancient World." He
sqys to find it you must go to Pharos
Isldnd in the horrbor. After qlmost
getting run over by qm irdte camel,
you find Pharos Island located at
the mouth of the Nile River. There
it is! On this small isldnd, stands
the Phoros, or Lighthouse, at Alex-
qndrid.
The Phoros lighthouse is one
of the tallest structures in the qn-
cient world. Using your moth skills
you figure that it is dbout 400 feet
high. Thqt is about the height of d
40-story building! It has three differ-
ent levels, like a very tall wedding
cqke! A golden-bronze, life-size
Pharos site
Alexandria
statue of Zeus Soter stood on top.
(Note to detectives: find out what
soter means. Check page 8.)
- Hmm. How did it work? You
LIGHTHouse NSPECrors Could WIND
up with DIRTY FINGERs!
By Mike Thomas
On top of dll their daily du-
ties, Yaquinq Hedd families had to
qlways be reddy for inspectors. Offi-
ciols come to inspect the lighthouse
four times q yeqr. Even the children
had to have their rooms inspected!
The inspectors never let the families
know when they were coming, qnd
they could come qt qny time of the
day or night. Lighthouse regulations
were very strict Cºnd the inspectors
were there to enforce them.
The inspectors demanded ut-
most neqtness. Bedrooms, as well
d's qll the rest of the home, had to
be neqt Cºnd cleq n. Some inspectors
were so strict that they even ran
their honds over the tops of the door-
jambs to see if dust was there! Can
you imagine how difficult it must
have been for the formily to keep
everything that neqt qnd cleq n on
top of doing all their other jobs?
!
ºaº.e600&0&000 g,
Yaquinq Hedd light station
included q two-family, two-story
house for the light keeper qnd his
formily. There was qlmost qlways q
need to fix plumbing qnd heating,
CInd make sure there was enough
drinking water. The housing wasn't
the best. One retired lighthouse
keeper sqid "the buildings left a lot
to be desired, ds winds would come
whistling through the buildings with
enough force to lift q catalog off the
floor." Perhaps that was one of the 80
miles per hour winds thqt often hit
the heddland during the winter.
Did Yaquinq Hedd families
hqve ony fun at dll?
In spite of their difficult day-
to-day lives lighthouse keepers
qnd their families still found time
for recredition. Since they had very
little entertainment they made their
own. They played music qmd even
put on shows for eqch other. One
of the most fun things the families
did was enjoying the outdoors. Both
CIdults ond kids tended gardens
qnd fished. They qlso hunted in the
neqrby forests. And of course, they
all redd a lot. ºf
IENT LIGHTHouse
qt Alexandrid. But unfortunqtely
you don't redd the language. Time
to hedd back to heddaud rters for
some more information.
Back at the History Mystery
Library you discover that this qm-
cient lighthouse was very formous
for d long time. Several modern
ldingudges still use d word like
"phoros" for lighthouse. Ancient
historiqns such as Homer, Pliny,
cºnd Strobo tell us how it worked.
Polished bronze mirrors qt the top
reflected sunlight by ddy to guide
sqilors. At night, these sqme mir-
rors reflected lorge bonfires burn-
ing in its base. People could see the
light from the Pharos for thirty-five
miles qt seq dnd from the neqrby
Greqt Pyramid of Gizq.
The Pyramid was built over
2000 years before the Phoros light-
house. And, it is still standing to-
dqy. But whdt happened to the light-
house? Why isn't it still stonding?
Time to check into the heddauqrters
dqtd bonk for more information.
You find thqt Phoros light-
house stood for over 1,000 years.
It collapsed qbout 700 years digo
qfter being badly domdged by
eqrthquakes in 956 AD cºnd 1303 AD.
Toddy the greqt Islamic fort of Qdit-
bdy covers the site of the Phoros.
In 1996, CI teq m of divers
claimed to have found remdins of
the Phoros lighthouse. They dis-
covered them in the worters of the
Mediterronedn Sed. Archdeologists
know from redding your History will study the mystery of these
Mystery Trading Cards that the underwater remains to find more
Fresnel lens hadn't been invented information about the history of
yet. Aha! There is a library nearby Pharos. 2; º
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THE 3 DANGERS
Your mission, detective, should you choose to qccept it, is to pilot
the skiff to the lighthouse, ovoiding the 8 DANGERS that dwait you!
DETECTIVES
You're hot on the trail of a stamp collector missing since 1973. You
have two postcards she sent when she was visiting lightstations that
were still being used as lighthouses. She mailed one from Jupiter,
FL, near Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse, and one from Northport, MI,
near Grand Traverse Lighthouse. If you can figure out which one
was mailed last, you might be able to tell where she was when she
disappeared. The Jupiter card has a 2 cent Cape Hatteras lighthouse
stamp and the Grand Traverse has a 5 cent airline beacon stamp.
The postmarks are smudged so that you can't read the dates.You
will need to use your detective skills to solve the mystery
search the American ºil.
Go cºmpºſe search stamps by ºn
and Keyword (Cape Hatteras). Find the year
CLUE No.3
Now you know something
about the stamps, but
you will need to visit the
lighthouse web sites to find
out where she was in 1973.
Grand Traverse at www.
grandtraverselighthouse.com
and www.ſrhs.org for
Jupiter Inlef.
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ACROSS
2 Concentrates light rays at the top of a
lighthouse.
6. This oil kept the light burning.
8 Considered one of the seven wonders of
the cºncient world.
9 Barrier used to close an opening in a
wall or fence.
ll Nevada's huge arrowhead was made
from this material.
12 The Duclon boys played this musical
instrument at Eagle Bluffs.
14 The pointed end of an arrow.
15 The person in charge of a lighthouse.
17. Its beacon keeps ships on course.
18 Florida Lighthouse.
19 Type of lens used at Yaquina Head.
DOWN
1 Service that delivers the mail.
3 The keeper's residence.
4 Your bedroom better be clean when this
person comes for a visit.
5 Lake Michigan is one.
7. A visible warning for pilots.
10 Transporting mail by aircraft.
13 Oregon lighthouse.
16 Home to the Pharos lighthouse.
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