Remember Makapu’u Point in the Territory of Hawaii on page 45? Here is Five Finger Island in the Alaska Territory. When did Alaska become a state in the United States?

What does preservation mean? Stabilization? Keepers were daily custodians of lighthouses. The buildings were repaired and painted regularly; the grounds were kept up; and visitors were deterred from doing damage. When keepers left their stations after widespread automation started in the 1960s, there were no caretakers to maintain those lighthouses. In many cases, local communities or "friends groups" took it upon themselves to preserve the light stations. Why would these structures be important to the local community? Why are offshore and isolated stations more challenging to preserve?