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From the day after Labor Day until Memorial Day Weekend, the regular operating hours of the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse and Museum are 10:00am until 6:00pm with the last admission sold at 5:00pm.

Walk in the shoes of early lighthouse keepers and their families doing housekeeping, children’s chores, and games.

Most of us are aware of the era in which the production, transport and sale of alcoholic beverages were prohibited as of January 16, 1920. with passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. However, many people are unfamiliar with the role played by Ponce Inlet Lighthouse’s keepers during that time in assisting in the apprehension of so-called “Rum Runners,” who smuggled in rum and other forbidden beverages from nearby sources such as the Bahamas.

Dr. Mary Josie Rogers, M.D. was born in 1876 to David Dunham Rogers and Julia Davis Rogers. David Rogers was one of the earliest settlers and one of the founders of Daytona Beach in 1878.

The National Historic Landmark Ponce Inlet Lighthouse and Museum welcomes all to celebrate National Lighthouse Day at the lighthouse, Saturday, August 5, from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with a special speaker’s program, uniformed keeper- docents on the station grounds to answer questions and conduct mini-tours, workshops and a take-home children’s craft.

For almost all the years that man has taken to the sea, shipwrecks were the norm, rather than the occasional happening…