The Cape Hatteras lighthouse was famously moved over 23 days in June and July 1999, when it was cut from its granite foundation, lifted onto rails and rolled 2,900 feet inland.

The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse would travel 2,900 feet starting on June 17, 1999, to avoid saltwater rotting its yellow pine timber foundation and accommodate the shifting shoreline. Before the ...

The Cape Hatteras lighthouse was famously moved over 23 days in June and July 1999, when it was cut from its granite foundation, lifted onto rails and rolled 2,900 feet inland.

The lighthouse endured an engineering feat in 1999, when, to keep the monument from suffering the consequences of erosion, crews picked it up and moved the structure about 1,500 feet inland.

Congress will make the ultimate decision, and decide whether to use $10,000,000 in federal money to move the lighthouse. Any construction will not happen until the spring of 1999.

"The move path is the path that the lighthouse took when we moved it 2900 feet in 1999.” The around $3.5 million project was made possible by Outer Banks organizations and the community through ...

The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse move has captivated people from coast to coast. WRAL OnLine is producing a CD-ROM about the lighthouse and the events surrounding the move. Planning, writing and ...

The Cape Hatteras lighthouse was famously moved over 23 days in June and July 1999, when it was cut from its granite foundation, lifted onto rails and rolled 2,900 feet inland.