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Lighthouse Service, the government organization controlling lighthouses and lighthouse keepers, used the same plans for several lighthouses. The different paint schemes, known as the lighthouse’s “day mark”, separate each lighthouse so

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mariners can identify locations during daylight hours. The light’s blinking sequence is also unique to each lighthouse for the same reason.
Havasu’s Currituck was constructed by Joe Vitello Masonry and they provided all the bricks. The bricks were left over from the building of Joe Vitello’s own home. Joe and five workers showed up for three days building the Lighthouse. Because of the curve of the tower, every brick had to be cut at an angle to create the roundness of the tower. This was not required, of course, on the original Currituck, which stands 162 feet tall and contains approximately one million bricks.
Sponsorship of the Lighthouse was made by Premier Material Technology, Inc. of Minneapolis, MN. This is the company that provides us with the solar and non-solar lights for all our lighthouses on the lake. The lantern room at the top of the tower, which houses the light, was constructed by Neil Esmay and is very close in appearance to the original.
The original Currituck Lighthouse, located 34 miles south of the Cape Henry (Virginia) lighthouse and 32 ½ miles north-northwest of Bodie Island Lighthouse (another lighthouse built to the same plans as Currituck and painted black and white), is known as a first order lighthouse. This means it has the largest of seven Fresnel lens sizes. The original source of light was a U.S. mineral oil lamp consisting of five concentric wicks; the largest was four inches in diameter. The light can be seen for 18 nautical miles at sea.
The Outer Banks area of North Carolina has always been a very dangerous area for shipping. Ships trying to avoid the Gulf Stream tend to hug the shore and are in danger of crashing or running aground.
The Currituck Lighthouse was the last lighthouse built on the Outer Banks and was automated in 1939 when the U.S. Coast Guard took over lighthouse responsibility from the Lighthouse Service.