Minot's Ledge Lighthouse

Abstract

On the completion of the work, there remained the sum of $30,000 of the original appropriation unexpended. It was the intention of the Lighthouse Board to devote this unexpended balance to the preparation of a complete history, with plans and pictorial illustrations. But the constructing engineer, the late Gen. B. S. Alexander, relieved from the work only a few weeks before the breaking out of the war, was called upon for services in arduous and absorbing labors during the whole period of its duration.