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A beautiful but aging Kaua'i lighthouse has won an online landmark preservation contest that will help efforts to restore it in time for its 2013 centennial.
The Garden Isle's beckoning red-topped beacon won the most votes for a Hawai'i treasure in need of preservation in the annual Hampton Hotels Save-a-Landmark contest, which donates money and volunteers for projects in five states each year. This year participants nominated sites in Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana and Idaho, as well as Hawai'i, casting more than 60,000 votes between Oct. 25 and Nov. 20.
The Hampton award announcement notes that the lighthouse "is considered one of the nation’s most intact historic light stations, consisting of a concrete lighthouse, three field stone keepers' quarters, a fuel oil shed, cisterns, and a supply landing platform." (For more about Hawai'i's historic lighthouses, see my May 2009 Aloha Friday column.)In 1985 the lighthouse became part of the Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge, which provides a home to Laysan albatrosses, wedge-tailed shearwaters, red-footed boobies and the state bird, the nēnē. Its scenic location on a peninsula in the rural area between the islands' east and north shores adds yet another reason the lighthouse is one of the most popular attractions on Kaua'i (and in the state), numbering more than half a million visitors yearly.
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