Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Bodie Island Lighthouse: *1847 – The contractor on the first project was Mr. Francis Gibbons, of Baltimore, who would later become a prominent lighthouse builder on the West Coast. Cost was $5,000 but problems with location and design of the tower caused a ten year delay in construction. The tower was highly unstable and soon after it was completed, it began to lean toward the sea. *1859 – The Bodie Island Lighthouse had deteriorated and the Lighthouse Board secured a $25,000 appropriation from Congress to erect a new tower. This new tower was 80 ft . and its lantern was a third-order Fresnel lens. *1861 – In the fall of 1861, Confederate troops stacked explosives inside the tower and blew it apart. *1871 – A third lighthouse was completed in 1871 partially with material left over from construction of a new tower at Cape Hatteras. The tower was 156 ft . with a first order Fresnel lens that made its light visible for 18 nautical miles . The Bodie tower is painted with white and black horizontal bands."@en }
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- Bodie_Island_Lighthouse quote "Bodie Island Lighthouse: *1847 – The contractor on the first project was Mr. Francis Gibbons, of Baltimore, who would later become a prominent lighthouse builder on the West Coast. Cost was $5,000 but problems with location and design of the tower caused a ten year delay in construction. The tower was highly unstable and soon after it was completed, it began to lean toward the sea. *1859 – The Bodie Island Lighthouse had deteriorated and the Lighthouse Board secured a $25,000 appropriation from Congress to erect a new tower. This new tower was 80 ft . and its lantern was a third-order Fresnel lens. *1861 – In the fall of 1861, Confederate troops stacked explosives inside the tower and blew it apart. *1871 – A third lighthouse was completed in 1871 partially with material left over from construction of a new tower at Cape Hatteras. The tower was 156 ft . with a first order Fresnel lens that made its light visible for 18 nautical miles . The Bodie tower is painted with white and black horizontal bands.".