Ocracoke Light News Today

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.

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.

The National Parks Service is inviting the public to attend a groundbreaking event for the Ocracoke Light Station project on Dec. 7

A Virginia company has been hired to make repairs to the Ocracoke Light Station at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina.

Repair of the iconic Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, construction of a new multi-use pathway in Buxton and repair and lifting of structures at Ocracoke Light Station will begin in the coming months.

OCRACOKE, N.C. (WNCT) — The National Park Service awarded a $3.6 million contract to Terra Site Constructors LLC (Front Royal, Virginia) on Monday to raise and make repairs to the Double Keepers’ Quarters and other structures at Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s Ocracoke Light Station. Built in 1823, the Ocracoke Light Station is comprised of the […]

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More than 500 gathered at the base of Ocracoke Lighthouse Thursday for the 200th birthday celebration of Ocracoke Light Station.