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It took slightly over one decade and nearly $2 million dollars, but Georgia’s Tybee Island Lighthouse Station is now fully restored.
At a celebration honoring the completion, Cullen Chambers, Executive Director of the Tybee Island Historical Society, who led the massive restoration project said, his “10-year plan” is now finally finished. He went on to say that Tybee Island Lighthouse Station is one of only less than two-dozen light stations in the nation that still has all of its support buildings.
Over the years the tower, in 1998-99, was the first part of the station to be restored followed by the keeper’s house and then the 1st assistant keeper’s house and other buildings. The restoration of the second assistant keepers dwelling completed the project.
The Tybee Island Lighthouse and Museum is open to the public. For more information go to www.LighthouseDigest.com and type in Tybee in the search box.
This story appeared in the
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