Towering 156 feet above the windswept marshes of the Outer Banks, Bodie Island Lighthouse has guarded North Carolina’s coast since 1872. Its black-and-white bands rise from a landscape buffeted by shifting shoals and Atlantic currents. After the loss of two earlier towers — one to a flawed foundation, the other destroyed by retreating Confederate troops — a sturdier structure was built to endure.
2026-05-13
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