When the GW Bridge was built in 1931, it began to overshadow the small, once-important lighthouse.
Horton Point Lighthouse, Lighthouse Road.
Mr. Flatto said acquiring the lighthouse was important to Fairfield.
She called the lighthouse an important aid to navigation that protects boaters from the rocks near the mouth of Huntington Harbor.
Among other important historic sites are the lighthouses and other structures in St. John's and Bonavista, the preserved 18th-century buildings in Trinity, and the cable house in Heart's Content, where the first successful transatlantic cable was laid in 1866.
Kõpu Lighthouse only lost its important role as a primary navigation aid in 1997, when a radar lighthouse took over its duties.
Lighthouse Point Park, Lighthouse Road.
In Egypt the Ptolemies, at the new capital city that bore Alexander's name and was founded by him, built the famous lighthouse and library, and another important sculptural school developed there.
The invention of that lens in 1822 by the French physicist Augustin Fresnel was perhaps the most important technological development in the history of lighthouses.
The point of application of the wave load is important in the tower's structural response; the lighthouse being especially vulnerable to larger displacements when the wave acts above its cylindrical base.
