America's first lighthouse, completed in Boston in 1716, was illuminated primarily by this type of oil
[DOC] [TLE] Light Stations of the United States - Alaska Department of Natural ... [PAR] Feb 22, 2002 ... instructions in How to Complete the Multiple Property ..... had to oversee the 
construction of the first lighthouses on the west ... Before this period, whale oil 
was the primary ... beginning of the "modern age" in lighthouse illumination.