Thanksgiving Gifts Celebrated at Ponce Inlet Lighthouse
Having the family visit the National Historic Landmark Ponce De Leon Lighthouse on Friday, Saturday or Sunday over the four-day Thanksgiving Holiday is becoming a local tradition for many. Like those others folks, why not inject into the weekend a little history, the thrill of the climb, and those incredible vistas from the top of the seventeen-story Brick Giant lighthouse tower?
Ponce Inlet Lighthouse Indigenous People’s Day
Ponce Inlet Lighthouse Indigenous People’s Day on November 18, 2023 will have demonstrations, crafts for kids, programs on the customs and language of the Timucua People, and the Seminole Indians Wars
A Death in the Tower
The recorded career of Joseph B. Davis with the Light-House Establishment began as a second assistant keeper at the Hillsboro Lighthouse, possibly as early as 1912. Davis resigned from that position in 1914, but he was soon working again as a second assistant keeper at the Mosquito (Ponce) Inlet Light Station, where he served from 1914-1916.
Ianthe Bond Hebel – 1884-1974 – A Ponce Park Teacher
Why did this soft-spoken girl who was extremely reserved, with few friends and who herself had not yet graduated from high school, venture to remote Ponce Park to take charge of twelve children as her first teaching assignment? This is certainly inspiration for researching her life.
The Troubles at Fastnet Lighthouse
We know there here have been unintended or accidental attacks on lighthouses across the world during wartimes. However, during the Irish War of Independence, also called the Anglo-Irish War of 1919-1921, a dozen Irish lighthouses were deliberately attacked by combatants to secure the fiery munitions they possessed!
Bert Pacetti, Protector of Mosquito Inlet Wildlife
The protection of waterbird populations became a significant national conservation movement during the early 1900s. In 1903, Bert Pacetti, Ponce Park’s renowned fishing guide, was named the warden of the Mosquito Inlet Sanctuary by President Theodore Roosevelt.
