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The extensive, $19.2 million Cape Hatteras Lighthouse restoration project begins in earnest Monday. “When this lighthouse project is done, the lighthouse will be in better shape than it has been since it was built in 1870,” National Parks of Eastern North Carolina Superintendent David Hallac said.

BUXTON — The extensive, $19.2 million Cape Hatteras Lighthouse restoration project begins in earnest Monday. “When this lighthouse project is done, the lighthouse will be in better shape than it has been since it was built in 1870,” National Parks of Eastern North Carolina Superintendent David Hallac said. The National Park Service awarded the Massachusetts-based Stone & Lime Historic ...

Just one month after its groundbreaking event, the Ocracoke Light Station project is underway.

Construction efforts will include removal of shrubs and saplings growing near the house, adding construction fencing and demolishing the interior to raise the house.

Construction work is proceeding for a $3.6 million project to raise and make repairs to the Double Keepers’ Quarters (DKQ) and other structures at Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s Ocracoke Light Station. Terra Site Constructors LLC has been contracted to complete the project.

Construction work has begun at Ocracoke Light Station at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in the Outer Banks, according to the National Park Service.

A $3.6 million project involving construction and hurricane repair work is underway at the Ocracoke Light Station on Ocracoke Island. The parking area in front of the light station will be closed for the duration of the project, but the grounds should mostly remain open, according to the National Park Service.

Neither the theft of four casks of whale oil nor the bombardment by a patriot raiding party during the Revolutionary War were able to permanently darken the Sandy Hook Lighthouse, a stout, eight-sided structure that continues to warn vessels off the shoals of Raritan Bay.

Four historic buildings at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina will be raised as much as 4 feet to keep them from succumbing to rising sea levels, the National

One home had 18 inches of sea water in it, officials say.