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Here is a picture of Fort Pocolet lighthouse, near Cap-Haitian

Fort Picolet, walls now taken by trees, vines. Hopefully unimpeachable during its official tenure, the walls of Fort Picolet have now been taken by trees, vines and attendants of vodou ceremonies. An aerial shot of the fort today shows as much the green of vegetation as the grey of man's design. The fort didn't sustain much damage during its years of operation, the cannons were never fired, however, damage to one wall was sustained after a magazine exploded.

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Picture of Lighthouse on the coast of Cap-Haitian in 1910.

Cap Haitian's claim to fame include the 1791 Vodou ceremony in which Boukman, a slave leader, called on the vodou spirits and incited a fervor for revolution. It was also in the north where Jean-Jacques Dessalines led the final battle of the revolution. After Dessalines' two year rule as Emperor, he was killed and the country split into two factions with the north being ruled by King Henri Christophe. He would go on to rename the city in its present moniker, build the Citadelle and the Palais Sans Souci.

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Lying in the Caribbean Sea, two-square mile Navassa Island rests 30 miles off Cape Tiburon, Haiti.

Its rocky landscape permits no human life there, its only use for guano mining, which ceased post the 1898 Spanish-American War.

Navassa became active again in 1914, when a light house was installed there. At the close of World War II, the island stood empty once more.

Fish and Wildlife Service received a deed to Navassa to use as a wildlife refuge in 1999.

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One thing that is very distinct to the island of Boman is that the entire island is made exclusively of sea shells.

One of teh most important structures in the Isle of Boman is its Lighthouse. The lighthouse is being powered by solar energy.

Other than this, everything else in the island is natural

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This is an example of a Light House or Fanal in Haiti built for Christmas. The construction of Fanaux during the Christmas season is something that is left only to the pros, the real artists, the well known builders in the neighborhood

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