History of lighthouses with demands, and to the loss of a number of ships, most notably the Dutch merchant ship Vreede in 1800 with the loss of 380 lives. After the reforms of the Lighthouse Act 1836, owners still managed to collect large dues, of which the largest were for the Smalls Lighthouse which collected £23,000 in 1852 and Trinity House was forced to spend over £1m in buying back leases, including £444,000 for the Skerries Lighthouse. The modern era of lighthouses began at the turn of the 18th century, as lighthouse construction boomed in lockstep with burgeoning levels of transatlantic commerce. Advances
History of lighthouses of our early development and remains an essential part of Maritime navigation even today. In 1835 the first lighthouse was built at Ponce Inlet. It was on the south side of Mosquito Lagoon. Unfortunately it was doomed seemingly from the beginning. First the oil was never delivered. The oil is what fueled the lamp. And right after that a strong storm washed away a lot of the sand around the lighthouse. Then the Seminole Indians not involved and they attacked the Ponce Inlet lighthouse and pretty much destroyed it. Lighthouses were soon built along the marshy coast lines from Delaware