Why Florida’s Most Dangerous Lighthouse Fell into the Sea

IT’S HISTORY - Weekly Tales of American Urban Decay as presented by your host Ryan Socash.

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Video Chapters:
0:00 Florida's Cursed Lighthouse
0:57 How the St. George Lighthouse came to be
2:40 Mighty Gales, Violent Wars, and Unforeseen Tragedies
6:56 Hurricanes STRIKE the St. George Lighthouse

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Scriptwriter - Ryan Socash,
Editor - Karolina Szwata,
Host - Ryan Socash
Music/Sound Design: Dave Daddario

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Some images may be used for illustrative purposes only - always reflecting the accurate time frame and content. Events of factual error / mispronounced word/spelling mistakes - retractions will be published in this section.

[dvulpis]

I’m guessing Florida’s most dangerous lighthouse fell into the sea because it was Florida’s most dangerous lighthouse.

[PrtoPoTaT]

So happy you listened to people and moved music to the background. Im in for the long haul big guy ❤️

[joetuktyyuktuk]

I am reminded of a story about not building a castle on sand?

[joemichael]

It’s wonderful that someone posts historical stories and photos, so the experts can crawl out of the cracks and explain to the commoners about life.

[stevecausey]

Were they able to retrieve the fresnel lens the last time it collapsed?
The spirit of the light...

[bauhnguefyische]

If you think about it, everything in Florida is built on sand. Think of it as a Zen sand garden that gets raked over every couple of decades.

[tjtreinen]

Maybe if florida had not gone cheap, and used techniques the British used to build light houses, with interlocking stones, it might be still standing. Thanks for another interesting video.

[GumbyAndrit]

I’ve been to St. George many times, and have known about this lighthouse before, well told

[bender]

I was in the USN for a long time and spent a buttload of time there, they packed up the Cape Hatteras LH and drug it 100+ yards inland. It was a better deal than replacing beach sand EVER year for rich dick flutes,

[TruBluYahoo]

Hurricane Andrew was 1992, not 1995. 1995 was Hurricane Erin. In this video andrew is named as occurring in both years. Cool and super interesting 👍 video though

[Helladamnleet]

It's actually more interesting that it has collapsed and been rebuilt TWICE.

- Once on purpose to save cost on rebuilding a lighthouse
- Once on purpose to preserve the history

[bstory]

Hurricane Andrew
Aug 16, 1992 – Aug 28, 1992

[walkerpantera]

wow, $11k in 1830s is about $4MILLION today.

[jmt]

It was never called Cape St. George. I have been in it 100 times before the collapse.

[iamelcapitan]

1995 would have been hurricanes Erin or Opal, not Andrew again. Otherwise great information, I never knew about this one.

[rebeccahylant]

I remember those hurricanes, especially Dennis in North Carolina.

[michaelsimmons]

I like when you said(if you were paying attention earlier and I was😂

[jerrydean]

Hurrican Andrew hit in '92, so what storm was it in '95? Opal maybe?

[Trtevoorryu]

I just knew from the title it was the St George Island lighthouse. That is a barrier island and like all barrier islands anything on it is transitory

[Trakeso]

ah, a video set in the South instead of the Rust Belt. Nice change :)