" Let There Be Light "

Site of print shop where

Elihu Stout (1782 - 1860),

Past Grand Master of Masons

in Indiana, established

Indiana Territory's first

newspaper, summer 1804.

Originally The Indiana Gazette,

it was renamed The Western Sun

July 4, 1807.

Marker is on North 1st Street east of Buntin Street, on the ...

“Let There Be Lights”

This Monument is a testimony to the vision of PWSI President Ed Foster-Simeon’s “Let There Be Lights” campaign.

On July 26, 2001, PWSI solidified Ed’s vision by dedicating these lights, bringing PWSI out of the darkness and into the light.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Let There Be Light

For 136 years, the Point lookout Lighthouse

helped generations of Chesapeake Bay

mariners avoid shoals, navigate through dense

fog, and find the Potomac River’s mouth. The

beam shone until 1966, when an automated light off Point Lookout assumed the job of the original wood-and-masonry ...