Casquets lighthouses per ton of ship when vessels passed the rocks and in turn he paid Trinity House 50 pounds per year for the right to run the lighthouses. The lighthouses reverted to Trinity House in 1785. They were converted to oil lamps with metal reflectors which were first used on 25 November 1790; and upgraded again with apparatus to rotate a beam of light in 1818. This had a clockwork mechanism which was wound up every hour and a half and gave one flash every 15 seconds. The lighthouses were badly damaged and the lanterns smashed in a severe storm on
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