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Article: Beauty and the beach - Outer Banks is perfect meld of history, nature.
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- The Boston Herald
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- July 22, 1999
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Have you ever seen a lighthouse walk?
The famous black-and-white-striped Cape Hatteras Lighthouse tottered along this summer at a snail's pace on horizontally mounted hydraulic jacks to a new home about 2,900 feet inland from the spot where it had stood on North Carolina's Outer Banks since 1870.
The 209-foot tower - America's tallest brick lighthouse - is an internationally recognized landmark. Since the 1930s, state and federal efforts have been made to protect it from the encroaching Atlantic. On its new concrete pad, the lighthouse stands approximately the same distance from the sea that it did when its powerful beams ...