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Moving the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
1999
Buxton, North Carolina
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The tallest brick lighthouse in America was built 1,500 feet from the sea in 1870 and by the 1980s the water was 120 feet away. Rather than lose it, engineers cut it free, jacked 4,800 tons onto rollers and pushed it 2,900 feet inland over 23 days at about a foot a minute, with the lens still in the tower. It has bought roughly a century.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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