HARBOUR TOWN LIGHTHOUSE

is unlike its government-backed brethren in that it was privately funded. Developer Charles Fraser paid to build it while constructing Harbour Town Marina andthe Sea Pines Plantation. is what naysayers called the development, but Fraser got the last laugh, setting up a golf tourney that, today, is known as the RBC Heritage. Its 50th edition will be played April 9-15. is open to the public for tours seven days a week, with a $4.25 fee to climb the thigh-burning 114 steps to the top. The walls are lined with memorabilia and historical images.