Light Houses Galore

From Amelia Island in northeastern Florida to Pensacola in the Panhandle, the coast of Florida is dotted with lighthouses of all sizes, shapes, materials, and, best of all, histories. Florida Lighthouse Trail offers a collection of the histories of Florida’s light stations by a number of different authors, each an authority on a particular lighthouse...

Although nearly 7 million people live along the southeast Florida coast, scarcely three generations ago it was a wild, lawless frontier ruled by bears, snakes and alligators. But when a lighthouse was built at Jupiter Inlet in 1860, it became the hub for hunters, surveyors, Civil War blockade runners, Union gunboats and pioneer farmers...

From Amelia Island to Key West, readers will discover more than thirty historic and picturesque lighthouses dotting the coasts of the Sunshine State with this delightful little guidebook.

The history of the indicdual lights, inlcuding their construction, repairs needed due to storms, and the politics that have always swirled around them as surely as the waters in the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Florida Straits

•Revised and updated from previous edition with new photos of renovated lighthouses •Florida’s lighthouses guide shipping south from the St. Marys River to the tip of the Keys, then north to Pensacola Bay •Some of Florida’s oldest and most historic structures, with diverse styles of architecture and daymark designs •See the black-and-white bands of the St...

With individual guides that cover Civil War sites in specific areas, this series uses unique formatting to make the terrain of each regions' battles come to life. Each guide features a heavy-duty paper stock laminated for durability, with an area map on the back of the fully opened piece...