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Cape Lookout Lighthouse
Constructed between 1857 and 1859, the Cape Lookout Lighthouse is significant as the prototype of all lighthouses to be erected on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The Cape Lookout Lighthouse was the first of the great lighthouses erected along the North Carolina coast.
- Time to build: 1857–1859, per HABS data pages
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