Do you wonder what life was like for children who lived in a lighthouse? A good place to start is with Children at Lighthouses - Author, Sarah Kay Bierle's notes on her book Lighthouse Loyalty provides links and tags to other lighthouse topics.
How did lighthouse design evolve? What was used for fuel before electricity? Find out the answers to these and more questions at How Does a Lighthouse Work - Part 2. Be sure to check out parts 1 & 3, also.
Discover more interesting lighthouse facts at the following sites.
Lighthouse Facts at Kiddle is a terrific source of information on lighthouses from ancient to modern, lighthouse technology, architects, building design, lenses, and more. Terrific photos with links to various lighthouses throughout the world.
Lighthouse Friends - This site includes photographs, directions, histories, and GPS for every lighthouse in the United States and nearly every lighthouse in Canada – including the 1871 Sodus Bay Lighthouse.
U.S. Lighthouses - People are drawn to lighthouses. The content on this website has been created from the site’s writer because - the first time he came across a lighthouse – he was around 5 years old - watchingPete’s Dragonand thought how cool it was seeing the lighthouse and Pete climbing the tower. After moving to North Carolina and seeing Bodie Island at the Outer Banks, the writer made an effort to visit most of the lighthouses in North Carolina, adding on lighthouses in Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia, and eventually New York in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Ontario, Canada. Sodus Bay lighthouses.
Imagine getting the lens – weighing as much as 12,800 pounds - up to the top of a lighthouse tower! This video from Artworks Florida Classic Fresnel Lenses, LLCshows how that task is accomplished and how a Fresnel lens like the one in our Sodus Bay lighthouse museum is put together. Fresnel lenses are categorized by orders. A first-order Fresnel is the largest, weighing in at close to 12,800 pounds. A sixth-order Fresnel lens is the smallest, weighing in at between 65 to 220 pounds. For more on other orders, sizes, weights, and costs visit – the United States Lighthouse Society.
The United States Lighthouse Society also has a terrific Kid’s Corner. Be sure to visit it for ideas on projects, other videos, reading suggestions, and much more.
Do you know what a “wickie” is?No, it has nothing to do with Wikipedia!Find out what a wickie is – here – at Sea Grit Lighthouse – Lighthouse Terminology – Part 2.Be sure to check out Part 1 for terms like bull’s-eye prism, caisson lighthouse, and Fresnel lens.
Thanks to a young lighthouse lover in Maine, SBHS adds this page from HMY Yacht Sales, a brokerage company with sites across the east coast. HMY-Lighthouses Guiding Ships to Safety is a terrific resource with many links to other informative lighthouse sites. Thank-you to our Maine friends for sharing this!
- Story time -
Listen to The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch by Rhonda and David Armitage. How does Mrs. Grindling solve the problem she has getting lunch to Mr. Grindling, the lighthouse keeper?
Did you ever want to climb to the top of a lighthouse tower? Enjoy this climb and then learn more about Cana Island Lighthouse Tower in Door County, Wisconsin on Lake Michigan. 
