Did you know?

Did you know that Point Montara Lighthouse on the San Mateo Count coast, California was moved there from Mayo's Beach near Wellfleet, MA on Cape Code? It was built in 1881 and "lost" approximately 80 years ago. However it actually was disassembled and moved across the country in the late 1920s. To read more please click on History comes to light, an article by Carl Nolte published in today's San Francisco Chronicle. Carl is Chronicle's staff writer. "The discovery first came to light in the Lighthouse Digest, a Maine-based magazine that is to lighthouse fans what Fortune magazine is to financiers. The digest published a story in its June issue by Colleen MacNeney, whose parents, Robert and Sandra Shanklin, have photographed every lighthouse in the United States and Puerto Rico."