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The Shinnecock (Pon Quogue) Lighthouse is shown here shortly before it came crashing to the ground. If you look closely at the base of the tower you will notice the brick has been taken away. According to Meyer Goldfard of the Vim Demolition Company, as reported in a local newspaper, a crew of seven men cut through the double brick walls of the tower, “a hole six feet high and about 40 feet long around the south side, shoring the building up with 10 by 10-inch timbers. Finally, they soaked the timbers with gasoline, reasoning that when the timbers burned out, the lighthouse would collapse. It was Mr. Howland who touched a torch to the gasoline-soaked timbers. Hundreds of onlookers watched flames roar through the tower and smoke pour out of the windows and through the top of the lighthouse. Then the big shaft fell with a roar like thunder.” Photograph from the American Lighthouse Foundation Archives.
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Story:
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Long Island’s Pon Quogue Lighthouse Met Violent End
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