August 7 marks the annual celebration of National Lighthouse Day. In this March 31, 2013 "Sunday Morning" report, Charles Osgood looks back at the creation of the first U.S. government-funded lighthouse, at Cape Henry in Virginia, and offers an illuminating history of these beautiful and serene sentinels of the seas.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/from-the-archives-lighthouses/