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Article: bodie island beacon is getting beautified.
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- September 11, 2009
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By Catherine Kozak
The Virginian-Pilot
bodie island
Nearly every corner of the Bodie Island Light Station site will soon be buzzing with restoration projects.
Three historic buildings that were on the oceanfront off the highway were relocated last week to the station's entrance road in preparation for rehabilitation.
And workers this month are expected to begin removing the original First Order Fresnel lens atop the lighthouse before restoration starts on the 1872 tower and its lens.
A new mile-long, 6-foot-wide wooden boardwalk from the lighthouse to the Pamlico Sound, a partnership with the state, is nearly ...