North Carolina Lighthouses

By Cheryl Shelton-Roberts and Bruce Roberts
 
Of the four dozen lighthouses that once marked the jagged shoreline of North Carolina, only nine still stand, watching over 300 miles of coast.  These beacons are cherished monuments of North Carolina history.  In addition to warning ships to safer waters, they now draw thousands of visitors each year.  Cheryl Shelton-Roberts and Bruce Roberts, co-founders of the Outer Banks Lighthouse Society, provide a well-researched, human-centered, and beautifully written iillustrated history of these towering structures.