{"id":804,"date":"2012-12-24T12:36:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T12:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=804"},"modified":"2023-05-25T19:01:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T19:01:42","slug":"jupiter-inlet-lighthouse-in-operation-since-1860-except-during-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=804","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse &#8211; in operation since 1860 (except during Civil War)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We visited a local landmark today &#8211; the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse.\u00a0 It was built in 1860 and during the construction there were several battles with the Seminole Indians in the area.<\/p>\n<p>This site is fairly unique among lighthouses as it&#8217;s 1\/2 mile inland from the ocean.\u00a0 But, it&#8217;s up on a sand dune and also has the highest rated prism that can transmit the light 15 miles away.\u00a0 The light source is only a 1000-watt bulb (originally they used a whale oil lamp) but the prism causes the light to be seen so far away.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s at the most eastern point in Florida, south of this area the shore curves, so this was a very dangerous area for ships who would sail along at night and not realize they were getting to close to the shore.\u00a0 There are a lot of shipwrecks in the area because of this land feature, giving the area names like &#8220;Treasure Coast&#8221; 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This site is fairly unique among lighthouses as it&#8217;s 1\/2 mile inland from the ocean.\u00a0 But, it&#8217;s up on a sand dune and also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=804\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse &#8211; in operation since 1860 (except during Civil War)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-19-atlantic-coast-of-florida","category-wherenow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7588,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/7588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}