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An Alphabetical Listing of Lighthouse Files Held by the Historian's Office

An Alphabetical Listing of Lighthouse Files Held by the Historian's Office
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Abagadasset Point Range Light (ME)

Absecon Light (NJ)

Admiralty Head Light (WA)

Aguadilla Light (PR)

Ahukini Breakwater (HI)

Alactraz Light (CA)

Alia Point (HI)

Algoma Light (WI)

Alki Point Light Station (WA)

Alligator Reef (FL)

Alpena Light (MI)

Althorp Rock (AK)

Ambrose Tower Light (NY)

Amelia Island Light (FL)

American Shoal Light (FL)

Amite River (LA)

Anacapa Island Light (CA)

Anacortes Light (WA)

Anastasia Island Light (FL)

Anchor Point (AK)

Anclote Key Light (FL)

Angel Island Light (CA)

Angle Point (AK)

Annisquam Harbor Light (MA)

Ano Nuevo (CA)

Apalachicola Light (FL)

Apostle Islands Light (WI)

Aransas Pass Light (TX)

Arecibo Light (PR)

Arlington Cut Range Light (FL)

Arnold Point Range Light (MD)

Ashcroft Light (OH)

Ashland Breakwater Light (WI)

Ashtabula Harbor Light (OH)

Assateague Island Light (VA)

Asusak Island Light Atchafalaya (LA)

Atlantic Highlands Breakwater Light (NJ)

Aunt Phebe Rock Light (NY)

Au Sable Light (MI)

Avery Point Light (CT)

Avery Rock Light (ME)

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Back River Light (VA)

Baily Creek Flats (VA)

Baileys Harbor Light (WI)

Baker Shoal Range (DE)

Bakers Island Light (MA)

Bakers Island Light (ME)

Bald Head Light (NC)

Baliz (LA)

Ballast Point (CA)

Baltimore Light (MD)

Baranofs Castle (AK)

Barataria Bay (LA)

Barbers Point Light (HI)

Barber's Point Light (NY)

Barcelona Harbor Light (NY)

Barnegat Light (NJ)

Bass Harbor Light (ME)

Bass River (MA)

Battery Gladden (AL)

Battery Point (CA)

Bay Furnace Light (MI)

Bayfield Light (WI)

Bayou Andre Light (LA)

Bayou Bonfouca (LA)

Bayou Rigolettes (LA)

Bayou St. John (LA)

Bear Island Light (ME)

Beaver Head Light (IL)

Beaver Island Light (MI)

Beavertail Light (RI)

Belhaven (NC)

Belle Isle Light (MI)

Bellevue Range Rear Light (DE)

Bells Rock Light (VA)

Bergen Point Light (NJ)

Big Bay Point Light (MI)

Big Sable Light (MI)

Billingsgate Light (MA)

Biloxi Light (MS)

Bird Island Light (MA)

Bishop & Clerks Light (MA)

Black Rock Harbor Lighthouse (CT)

Blakistone Island Light (MD)

Bligh Reef Light (AK)

Block Island Light (RI)

Block Island North Light (RI)

Block Island Southeast Light (RI)

Bloody Point Bar Light (MD)

Bloody Point Range Light (SC)

Blue Hill Bay Light (ME)

Bluff Point Light (NY)

Bluff Shoal Light (NC)

Boca Grande Rear Range (FL)

Bodie Island (NC)

Bois Blanc Light (MI)

Boliver Point Light (TX)

Bodkin Island Lighthouse (MD)

Bodkin Rock Light (CT)

Bonfouca Light (LA)

Boon Island (ME)

Boothbay Harbor (ME)

Borden Flats Light (MA)

Boston Light (MA)

Bowlers Rock Lighthouse (VA)

Braddock Point Light (NY)

Brandywine Shoal Light (NJ)

Brant Island Shoal Light (NC)

Brant Point Light (MA)

Brazos River (TX)

Brazos Santiago Light (TX)

Breakers Point Light (HI)

Brenton Reef Offshore Light (RI)

Brewerton Channel Range Light (VA)

Bridgeport Breakwater Light (CT)

Bridgeport Harbor Light (CT)

Bristol Ferry Light (RI)

Browns Head Light (ME)

Browns Point Light (WA)

Bryant Point Light (MA)

Buck Island Light (VI)

Buffalo Light (NY)

Buffalo Breakwater Lighthouse (NY)

Buffalo Harbor North Entrance Light (NY)

Buffalo Harbor South Entrance Light (NY)

Bullocks Point Light (RI)

Burlington Bank (NJ)

Burlington Breakwater North Light (VT)

Burlington Breakwater South Light (VT)

Burnt Coat Harbor Light (ME)

Burnt Island Light (ME)

Burrows Island Light (WA)

Busby Island Light (AK)

Butler Flats Light (MA)

Buzzards Bay Light (MA)

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Cabeza de San Juan (PR)

Cabo Rojo (PR)

Cabo San Juan (PR)

Cabras Island Light (PR)

Calcasieu River (LA)

Calumet Harbor (IL)

Cana Island (WI)

Canton Island Boat Channel Light (Kiribati)

Canton Island (Phoenix Islands) Cape Ann (MA)

Cape Ann (Thatcher Island) (MA)

Cape Arago Light (OR)

Cape Blanco Light (OR)

Cape Canaveral (FL)

Cape Chacon (AK)

Cape Charles (VA)

Cape Cod Canal (MA)

Cape Cod Light (MA)

Cape Decision (AK)

Cape Disappointment (WA)

Cape Edgecombe (AK)

Cape Elizabeth (ME)

Cape Espenberg (AK)

Cape Fear (NC)

Cape Flattery (WA)

Cape Florida (FL)

Cape Hatteras (NC)

Cape Hanamanioa (HI)

Cape Henlopen (DE)

Cape Henry (VA)

Cape Hinchinbrook (AL)

Cape Horn Lights (?)

Cape Kumukahi (HI)

Cape Lookout (NC)

Cape Lynch Light (AK)

Cape Mala (CZ)

Cape May (NJ)

Cape Meares (OR)

Cape Mendochino (CA)

Cape Neddick (ME)

Cape Poge (MA)

Cape Rojo (PR)

Cape Romain (SC)

Cape Romano (FL)

Cape Saint Elias (AK)

Cape Saint George (FL)

Cape San Blas (FL)

Cape San Juan (PR)

Cape Sarichef (AK)

Cape Spartel (Morocco)

Cape Spencer (AK)

Cape Vincent Breakwater Lighthouse (NY)

Cape Vincent Breakwater West End Light (NY)

Cardona Island (PR)

Carleton Island (NY)

Carquinez Strait (CA)

Carrabelle (FL)

Carter H. Harrison Crib (IL)

Carysfort Reef (FL)

Castle Hill (RI)

Castle Rocks (MA)

Cat Island (MS)

Cattle Point (WA)

Cedar Island (NY)

Cedar Keys (FL)

Cedar Point (MI)

Chambers Island (WI)

Chandeleur Island (LA)

Channel Island Light (?)

Chapel Hill Front Light (NJ)

Chapel Hill Rear Range Light (NJ)

Chapin Island Range (AK)

Charity Island (MI)

Charleston (SC)

Charlevoix (MI)

Charlevoix South Pier Light (MI)

Charlotte Amalie (VI)

Charlotte Harbor (FL)

Charlotte-Genesse East Pier (NY)

Charlotte-Genesse (NY)

Charlotte-Genesee West Pier (NY)

Chatham Light (MA)

Cheboygan Main Light (MI)

Cheboygan Crib Light (MI)

Cheboygan Range Rear Light (MI)

Chefuncte River (see Tchefuncte)

Chequamegon Point Light (WI)

Cherry Island (DE)

Cherrystone Bar Light (VA)

Chesapeake (VA)

Chesapeake & Delaware Canal (MD/DE)

Chester Range Front Light (PA)

Chester Range Light (PA)

Chetco River Light (OR)

Chicago Harbor (IL)

Chicago Harbor Lighthouse (IL)

Chicago Pierhead Lighthouse (IL)

Choctaw Point (AL)

Choptank River (MD)

Christiana North Jetty (DE)

Clark’s Point Light (MA)

Clay Island Lighthouse (MD)

Cleveland East Pier Lighthouse (OH)

Cleveland East Pierhead Lighthouse (OH)

Cleveland Harbor East Breakwater Lighthouse (OH)

Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Lighthouse (OH)

Cleveland Ledge (OH)

Clinton River (MI)

Clopper’s Bar (TX)

Cobb Point Bar (MD)

Cockspur Light (GA)

Coconut Point (HI)

Cohansey (NJ)

Colchester Reef (VT)

Cold Spring Harbor (NY)

Columbia River Lights (OR)

Colvos Passage (WA)

Coney Island (NY)

Conanicut Island (RI)

Concord Point (MD)

Conimicut (RI)

Conneaut West Breakwater Light (OH)

Conover Beacon (NJ)

Coos Bay (OR)

Copper Harbor (MI)

Coquille River (OR)

Corpus Christi (TX)

Cosgrove Shoal Light (FL)

Cottonwood Island (OR)

Courthouse Point (MD)

Cove Point (MD)

Coxsackie (NY)

Crabtree Ledge (ME)

Craighill Channel Lower Front Light (MD)

Craighill Channel Lower Rear Light (MD)

Cranberry Island (NS)

Craney Island (VA)

Crescent City (CA)

Crisp Point (MI)

Croatan Shoal (NC)

Crooked River (FL)

Crossover Island Lighthouse (NY)

Crown Point Light (NY)

Cross Ledge Light (NJ)

Cubits Gap (LA)

Cuckolds Light (ME)

Culebrita Island (PR)

Cumberland Head (NY)

Currituck Beach (NC)

Curtis Island (ME)

Cut-Off Channel Range Front Light Station (MD)

Cut-Off Channel Range Rear Light Station (MD)

Cuttyhunk (MA)

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Fair Haven Range Lights (NY)

Fairhaven Bridge (MA)

Fairport Harbor Lighthouse (OH)

Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Lighthouse (OH)

Fairway Island (AK)

Falmouth Inner Harbor (MA)

False Point Daybeacon (?)

Farallon Island (CA)

Farmers Ridges Range (MI)

Faro de Arecibo Light (PR)

Faro de Los Morrillos Light (PR)

Faro de Puerto Ferro Light (PR)

Father Point (CA)

Faulkner Island (CT)

Fenwick Island (DE)

Finns Point Range Front Light (PA)

Finns Point Range Rear Light (PA)

Fire Island (NY)

Fisherman’s Point (Cuba)

Fisher’s Island (CT)

Fishing Battery (MD)

Five Fingers (AK)

Five Mile Island Light (CT)

Flag Island (MN)

Fleets Bay Light (VA)

Fletcher’s Neck (ME)

Fog Point Lighthouse (MD)

Foot Bank (?)

Foreign Light Stations

Foremost Rock Daybeacon (?)

Fort Adams (RI)

Fort Barrancas (FL)

Fort Carroll (MD)

Fort Delaware (DE)

Fort Foote Wharf (MD)

Fort Gratiot (WI)

Fort Jackson Range (GA)

Fort Jefferson (FL)

Fort Lafayette (NY)

Fort Louisa Augusta (VI)

Fort McCree (FL)

Fort McCree Rear Range Beacon (FL)

Fort Mifflin (PA)

Fort Niagara (NY)

Fort Pickering (MA)

Fort Point (CA)

Fort Point (ME)

Fort Point (TX)

Fort Ripley Shoal (SC)

Fort Scammel Point (ME)

Fort Sumter (SC)

Fort Tompkins (NY)

Fort Wadsworth (NY)

Fort Washington (NY)

Fort Wood (CT)

Found Island Rock Daybeacon (?)

Four Mile Crib (IL)

Fourteen Foot Bank (DE)

Fourteen Foot Shoal (MI)

Fourteen Mile Point (MI)

Forty Mile Point (MI)

Fox Island (CAN)

Fox River (WI)

Fowey Rocks (FL)

Frankfort Pierhead (MI)

Franklin Island (ME)

Franks Island (LA)

Fransen Island Range (MN)

Frechette Point (MI)

Frederiksted (VI)

Frost’s Point (NH)

Frying Pan Island (MI)

Frying Pan Shoals (NC)

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Galloo Island (NY)

Gallups Island (MA)

Galveston (TX)

Gambier Bay Entrance Light (AK)

Garden Key (FL)

Gary (IN)

Gasparilla (FL)

Gaspee Point (RI)

Gastineau Channel Light (AK)

Gay Head (MA)

General History Genesee (NY)

George Island (?)

Georgetown (SC)

Gloucester Base (NJ)

Gloucester Breakwater (MA)

Glymont (MD)

Goat Island (ME)

Golovin Bay Light (AK)

Goose Rocks (ME)

Gould Island (RI)

Governors Island (NY)

Grand Haven Front Light (MI)

Grand Haven Rear Light (MI)

Grand Island Light Station (LA)

Grand Island East Channel (MI)

Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light (MI)

Grand Island North Light (MI)

Grand Marais Harbor Range Lights (MN)

Grand Marais (MN)

Grand Traverse (MI)

Granite Island (MI)

Grant’s Pass (AL)

Grassy Hammock (CT)        

Grassy Island North Channel Front Range (MI)

Grassy Island North Channel Rear Light (MI)

Grassy Island Range Lights (WI)

Grassy Island South Channel Front Light (MI)

Grassy Island South Channel Rear Light (MI)

Gravelly Shoal (MI)

Graves Ledge (ME)

Graves Light (MA)

Gray’s Harbor (WA)

Gray’s Reef (MI)

Great Aquavitae (MA)

Great Beds (NJ)

Great Captain Island (CT)

Great Duck Island (ME)

Great Harbor (MA)

Great Point (MA)

Great Salt Pond (RI)

Great Shoals (MD)

Great Wicomico (VA)

Green Bay (WI)

Green Island (OH)

Green Island (WI)

Greenbury Point (MD)

Greenbury Point Lighthouse Shoal (MD)

Greens Ledge (CT)

Grindle Point (MD)

Grosse Ile North Channel Range (MI)

Grosse Ile South Channel Front Range (MI)

Grosse Ile South Channel Rear Range (MI)

Grosse Point (IL)

Guanica (PR)

Guantanamo (Cuba)

Guard Island (AK)

Gull Island (MI)

Gull Rock (MI)

Gull Rocks (RI)

Gustavus Light (AK)

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Icy Passage Light (AK)

Ida Lewis Rock (RI)

Ilkognak Rock Light (AK)

Indian Island (ME)

Indian Point Range (MI)

Indiana Harbor East Breakwater (IN)

Indiana Waterway Light No. 49 (NC)

Inner Point Light (AK)

Ipswich Range (MA)

Isla Cabras Light (PR)

Isla Caja de Muertos (PR)

Isla Cardona (PR)

Isle au Haute (ME)

Isle aux Galets (MI)

Isle LaMotte (VT)

Isle of Shoals (NH)

Isle Royale (MI)

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Kahoolawe Point (HI)

Kaena Point (HI)

Kahului Entrance Range (HI)

Kailua (HI)

Kalae (HI)

Kalamazoo (MI)

Kalaupapa (HI)

Kalgin Island (AK)

Karheen Passage Daybreak (AK)

Kasnyku Harbor Daybeacon (AK)

Kauhola Point (HI)

Kauiki (HI)

Kaula Rock (HI)

Kaumalapau (HI)

Kawaihae (HI)

Kauna Point (HI)

Keahole (HI)

Keku Strait Daybeacon (AK)

Kenosha (WI)

Kennebec River (ME)

Ketchikan-Thomas Basin (AK)

Ketchikan Light (AK)

Kewalo Basin (HI)

Kewaunee Pierhead (WI)

Keweenah Waterway (MI)

Keweenaw Lower Entrance (MI)

Keweenaw Upper Entrance (MI)

Key Reef Light (AK)

Key West (FL)

Khantaak Island (AK)

Kilauea (HI)

Killock Shoal (VA)

Kingston Flats (NY)

Kinkora (NJ)

Klawak Island Light (AK)

Klokachee Lamp (?)

Kokole Point (HI)

Kuhio Bay (HI)

Kukuihaele (HI)

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Machias Seal (CAN)

Mackinac Point (MI)

Magothy River (MD)

Mahon River (DE)

Mahukona (HI)

Makapu'u Point (HI)

Manana Island (ME)

Manistee (MI)

Manistee North Pierhead (MI)

Manistique (MI)

Manitou Island (MI)

Manitowoc (WI)

Manitowoc North Breakwater (WI)

Manitowoc North Pierhead (WI)

Mantua Creek (NJ)

Maplin Sand Light (England)

Marblehead (OH)

Marblehead (MA)

Marcus Hook (DE)

Mare Island (CA)

Marine City Range Light (MI)

Marquette Light (MI)

Marquette Breakwater (MI)

Mark Abbott Memorial Lighthouse (CA)

Marrowstone Point (CT)

Marshall Point Light (ME)

Martin Reef (MI)

Mary Island (AK)

Maryland Point (MD)

Matagorda Bay Light (TX)

Mathias Point Shoal Light (MD)

Matinicus Rock Light (ME)

Mattituck (NY)

Maumee Bay (OH)

Maurice River (NJ)

Maxfield Point (VT)

Maxwell Point Light (SC)

Mayo Beach (MA)

McClellan Rock Light (AK)

McGregor Point Daybeacon (HI)

McGulpin Point (MI)

Meares Island (CAN)

Mendenhall Bar (AK)

Mendota Light (MI)

Menominee Pierhead Light (WI)

Meriches Light (NY)

Merrill Shell Bank (MS)

Merrimac (WI)

Metomkin Point (VA)

Miah Maull Shoal Light (NJ)

Michigan City Light (IN)

Michigan Island (WI)

Middle Bay (AL)

Middle Island (MI)

Middle Neebish (MI)

Midway Rock Light (CA)

Mile Rocks Light (CA)

Milolii (HI)

Milwaukee Breakwater (WI)

Milwaukee Pierhead (WI)

Minneapolis Shoals (MI)

Minnesota Point (MN)

Minor Island (WA)

Minor Island/Tansy Point (WA)

Minot’s Ledge (MA)

Mispillion River (DE)

Mission Point (MI)

Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MS)

Mite Head (?)

Mitrofania Island (AK)

Mobile Bay (AL)

Mobile Point (AL)

Mobile Point Range Rear Light (AL)

Molasses Reef (FL)

Molokai (HI)

Molokini Light (HI)

Mona Island (PR)

Monhegan Island (ME)

Montreal River Light (MI)

Monroe (MI)

Monroe Pier (MI)

Monomoy Point Light (MA)

Montauk Point (NY)

Moos Head (OR)

Moose Peak (ME)

Morgan Point (CT)

Morris Island (SC)

Morro Bay (CA)

Mosquito Bank Light (FL)

Moss Landing (CA)

Mount Desert Island Light (ME)

Mud Island Rear Light (PA)

Muertos Island (PR)

Mukilteo Light (WA)

Mule Rock (AK)

Mulholland Point (CAN)

Munising Range (MI)

Murderkill River Range Front (DE)

Murphy’s Dock Light (?)

Muscle Bed Shoal (RI)

Muskegon South Pierhead (MI)

Myhlen Feldt Point (VI)

Matomkin Light (VA)

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Pacific Reef Light (FL)

Pages Rock (VA)

Pago Pago (American Samoa)

Palaoa Point (HI)

Palmer's Island (MA)

Pamlico Point (NC)

Pascagoula (MS)

Pass a l’Outre (LA)

Pass Christian Light (MS)

Pass Manchac (LA)

Passage Island (MI)

Passaic Light (NJ)

Pastol Bay (AK)

Patos Light (WA)

Paukaa Point (HI)

Pauwela Point (HI)

Paymyra Light (NJ)

Pea Patch Island (DE)

Peche Isle Range (MI)

Pearse Canal (AK)

Pearl River (LA)

Peck’s Ledge (CT)

Peep Rock Light (AK)

Pelican City (AK)

Pelican Shoal (FL)

Pemaquid (ME)

Penfield Reef (CT)

Peninsula Point (MI)

Pensacola Bar Beacon (FL)

Pensacola Light (FL)

Pentwater Pierhead (MI)

Pepe'ekeo Point (HI)

Perkins Island (ME)

Perry Island Light (AK)

Perry Victory and International Peace Memorial Light (OH)

Petit Manan Light (ME)

Pharos of Alexandria (Egypt)

Piedras Blancas (CA)

Pigeon Point (CA)

Pillar Point (NZ)

Pilot Island (WI)

Piney Point (MD)

Pipe Island (WI)

Plattsburg Beacon (NY)

Plum Beach (RI)

Plum Island (NY)

Plum Island Range Front Light (WI)

Plum Island Range Rear Light (WI)

Plymouth (aka Gurnet) (MA)

Poe Reef (MI)

Point Adams (OR)

Point Alexander Light (CAN)

Point Allerton (CAN)

Point Ancon Light (?)

Point Arden (AK)

Point (Puenta) Arena (CA)

Point Arguello (CA)

Point Augusta (AK)

Point au Fer (LA)

Point Aux Barques (MI)

Point Aux Herbes (LA)

Point Aux Roche (NY)

Point Baker (AK)

Point Betsie (MI)

Point Blunt (CA)

Point Bolivar (TX)

Point Bonita (CA)

Point (Puenta)

Point Borinquen (PR)

Point Cabrillo (CA)

Point Colpoys Light (AK)

Point Conception (CA)

Point Defer (LA)

Point Diablo (CA)

Point Erie (PA)

Point Fermin (CA)

Point Figuras (PR)

Point Gambier (?)

Point Grenville (WA)

Point Harris (CA)

Point Hilda (AK)

Point Higuero (PR)

Point Hudson (WA)

Point Hueneme (CA)

Point Iroquois (MI)

Point Judith (RI)

Point Jiguero (PR)

Point Light (?)

Point Loma (CA)

Point Lookout (MD)

Point Montara (CA)

Point Macartney (?)

Point Mulas (PR)

Point No Point (MD)

Point No Point (WA)

Point Orchard (WA)

Point of Shoals (VA)

Point Pigal (AK)

Point Pinos (CA)

Point Retreat (AK)

Point Reyes (CA)

Point Robinson (WA)

Point Sal (CA)

Point Sherman (AK)

Point Sur (CA)

Point Tuna (PR)

Point Vicente (CA)

Point Wilson (WA)

Pollock Rip Beacon (MA)

Pomham Rocks (RI)

Ponce de Leon (FL)

Ponce Harbor Front Range (PR)

Pond Island (ME)

Pooles Island Bar (MD)

Poplar Point (RI)

Port Alexander Rear Range (AK)

Port Austin Reef (MI)

Port Canaveral (FL)

Port Clinton (OH)

Port Ferro (PR)

Port Isabel (TX)

Port Mansfield (TX)

Port Ponce (PR)

Port Pontchartrain (LA)

Port Protection Light (AK)

Port Sanilac (MI)

Port San Juan (PR)

Port Washington (WI)

Port Washington Breakwater (WI)

Port Washington Pierhead (WI)

Portage River (MI)

Portage Lake (MI)

Portage Lake Ship Canal (MI)

Portland Breakwater (ME)

Portland Harbor (NY)

Portland Head (ME)

Portsmouth Harbor (NH)

Port Tongass (AK)

Pottawatomie (WI)

Poverty Island (MI)

Povoronti Island (AK)

Presque Isle (ME)

Presque Isle Front Range (MI)

Presque Isle (PA)

Presque Isle North Pierhead (PA)

Presque Isle Rear Range (MI)

Presque Isle Harbor (ME)

Price's Creek (NC)

Priest Rock (WA)

Princes Bay (NY)

Proctorville (LA)

Prospect Harbor (ME)

Prudence Island Light (RI)

Puerto Ferro (PR)

Pulaski Shoal (FL)

Pumpkin Island Light (ME)

Pungoteague Light (VA)

Punta Gorda (CA)

Punta Del Ano Nuevo (CA)

Pyramid Rock (HI)

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Quinta Sueno (DR)

Quoddy Head Light (MA)

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Sabine Bank (TX)

Sabine Pass (LA)

Sabine Pass East Jetty (TX)

Sabine Pass Jetty Range (TX)

Sabin Point (RI)

Sackets Harbor (NY)

Saginaw River Rear Range (MI)

Saddleback Ledge (ME)

St. Andrews Bay (FL)

St. Augustine (FL)  

St. Clair Flats Canal River (MI)

St. Clair Flats Light Station (MI)

St. Clair Flats Range Front (MI)

St. Clair Flats Range Rear (MI)

St. Croix River (ME)

St. George Reef (CA)

St. Helena Island (MI)

St. James (MI)

St. John’s (FL)

St. Johns River (FL)

St. Joseph’s Island (MS)

St. Joseph North Pier (MI)

St. Joseph Point Front Range (FL)

St. Joseph Point Rear Range (FL)

St. Lawrence (CAN/NY)

St. Louis (MN)

St. Marks (FL)

St. Martin Island (MI)

St. Mary’s River Lower Front Range (MI)

St. Mary's River Lower Rear (MI)

St. Simons (GA)

Sakonnet (RI)

Salem River Range Front (NJ)

Salmon River (NY)

Saluria (TX)

Saltery Cove (?)

San Diego Bay (CA)

San Luis Obispo (CA)

Sand Hills (MI)

Sand Island (AL)

Sand Island (WI)

Sand Key (FL)

Sand Point (Baraga, MI)

Sand Point (Escanaba, MI)

Sands Point (NY)

Sandusky Bay Front Range (OH)

Sandusky Bay Rear Range (OH)

Sandusky Harbor Pierhead (OH)

Sandy Hook (NJ)

Sandy Point Shoal (MD)

Sandy Neck (MA)

Sanibel Island (FL)

Sankaty Head Light (MA)

Santa Barbara (CA)

Santa Barbara Breakwater (CA)

Santa Cruz (CA)

Santa Monica (CA)

Sapelo Island (GA)

Saugerties (NY)

Saugatuck South Pierhead (MI)

Savannah (GA)

Saybrook Breakwater (CT)

Schooner Ledge Rear Range (PA)

Scituate (MA)

Schuylkill River Jetty (PA)

Schuylkill River Range (PA)

Scotch Cap (AK)

Sea Gate (NY)

Sea Girt (NJ)

Seaflower Reef Daybeacon (NY)

Seal Rocks (CA)

Seldovia Entrance (AK)

Semiahoo (WA)

Sentinel Island (AK)

Seguin (ME)

Seul Choix Pointe (MI)

Seven Foot Knoll (MD)

Shakan Strait Daybeacon (?)

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Historic Lighthouses & Light Stations

 


 Boston  Brazo Santiago Punta de Los Reyes 

1. Historic lighthouse drawing, 2. Boston Light [170602-G-0Y189-474], 3. Sand Key [170602-G-0Y189-329], 4. Brazo Santiago [170602-G-0Y189-489], 5. Punta de Los Reyes [170602-G-0Y189-282]

 

Additional Resources: Please visit the National Park Service Maritime Heritage Program's website for a searchable inventory of Historic Lighthouses and Light Stations:  https://www.nps.gov/maritime/inventories/lights.htm 

 


Lighthouse materials available here are an expanded version of the National Park Service's Inventory of Historic Light Stations.  This site incorporates the National Park Service's Inventory as well as light station files that are maintained by the Coast Guard Historian's Office.  A special thanks is owed to Ms. Candace Clifford of the National Maritime Initiative and author of the Inventory of Historic Light Stations for her permission to utilize the Inventory.

The majority of the photos were taken from the files of the U.S. Coast Guard Historians' Office.  They were compiled and scanned by Mr. Joseph Kiebish, and we wish to acknowledge his generous assistance and thank him for his service as a volunteer.   

Additional information as well as the history for each lighthouse is provided courtesy of volunteers from the Chesapeake Chapter of the U.S. Lighthouse Society, including Anne Puppa, William Simms, Melissa Buckler, Marie Vincent, Catherine Price, Diane Hackney and Matthew B. Jenkins.  We gratefully acknowledge their efforts as well


 

Lighthouse Fact Sheets (Alphabetical)

Plymouth Light

Oct. 1, 2019
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Plymouth Light (Gurnet Light), Gurnet Point at the entrance to Plymouth Bay, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Originally built in 1768, and rebuilt in 1801 as a pair of twin lighthouses, twin lights rebuilt again in 1842, current single tower built in 1910, the second tower, the northeast tower, torn down.

PLYMOUTH (GURNET) LIGHT 

GURNET POINT/PLYMOUTH BAY 
Station Established: 1768 
Year Current/Last Tower(s) First Lit: 1843 
Operational? YES 
Automated? YES 1986 
Deactivated: n/a 
Foundation Materials: GRANITE 
Construction Materials: CEDAR SHINGLE 
Tower Shape: OCTAGONAL PYRAMIDAL 
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN & RED ROOF 
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE 
Original Lens: TWO FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1871 

Historical Information:

* One of Massachusetts’ two minor peninsulas, extending north and south into the sea between Scituate and Plymouth, extends far south along a great stretch of sand dunes which end at the Gurnet.  In 1606 Champlain landed here and watched the Indians fishing for cod with fishhooks made of wood, on which a spear-shaped bone was fastened. The lines were made of tree bark. The Pilgrims called the land "the gurnett’s nose." The place was apparently named after several similar headlands in the English channel, many of them being called for the fish of that name which is caught along the coast of Devonshire.
* The Plymouth (Gurnet) Lighthouse was first established in 1768 by the Massachusetts Legislature. The first keeper was John Thomas on whose land the original lighthouse was built, and for which rent of 5 shillings per year was paid him by the colony. Later Hannah, his widow, was keeper. Both had received $200 per annum for their services. The lighthouse cost £660 to erect, was 30 feet long, 20 feet high, and 15 feet wide with a "lanthorn" at each end of the building, holding two lamps each.  During the Revolution, the three towns of Plymouth, Duxbury, and Kingston had erected a fort on the Gurnet. In the midst of an engagement between the fort and the British frigate Niger, which had gone aground on Brown’s Bank, a wild shot from the ship pierced the lighthouse. Later the vessel got off and escaped. The Gurnet Light, however, is thus the only United States lighthouse known to have ever been hit by a cannon ball.
* In 1778 the armed brigantine General Arnold was caught in a blizzard while less than a mile from the light and the captain anchored his vessel rather than risk the treacherous waters of Plymouth’s inner harbor without a pilot. The vessel dragged anchor and hit on White Flats. Seventy two of the crew died most of them freezing to death in the below-zero temperature before they could be rescued. The keeper of Gurnet Light was unable to go to their aid because the harbor was blocked with ice. A causeway had to be built over the ice to rescue the survivors.
* In 1783 the damage done to the lighthouse during the Revolution was repaired. In a terrible December snowstorm in 1786, a coasting sloop from Boston to Plymouth was caught off Gurnet. Only one man was hurt when the ship struck a sand bar and all landed safely. Several miles from any habitation two men finally reached Gurnet Lighthouse and Thomas Burgess, the keeper, dispatched his assistant to help the others reach the lighthouse safely.
* Under the act of August 7, 1789, the United States accepted cession of the lighthouse by Massachusetts on June 10, 1790, including "the interest of the Commonwealth in the lighthouse land, etc., on the Gurnet Head, west of Plymouth."  On July 2, 1801, the lighthouse was completely destroyed by fire. The merchants of Plymouth and Duxbury erected a temporary beacon at their own expense. On April 6, 1802, Congress appropriated $270 to reimburse them. At the same time Congress also appropriated $2,500 "for rebuilding the lighthouse on Gurnet." Twin lights were built and the Thomas family was paid $120 for the land on which the new lighthouses were constructed.
* Joseph Burgess succeeded his father as keeper on October 16, 1812, and remained in charge of the light until 1851.  Congress appropriated $5,000 in 1836 "for preserving the point of land leading to the fort and lighthouse at the Gurnet, in Duxbury, by hurdles or double ranges of piles."   Lt. Edward W. Carpender, USN, reported on November 1, 1838, that the Gurnet light beams were horizontal rather than perpendicular as other lighthouse beams were. "They require to be double to distinguish them from the single light at Barnstable. They are in separate towers, 22 feet high and 30 feet apart. They consist of a single series of six lamps each, with old 8 1/2-inch reflectors, arranged in a circular form, so as to suit the harbor as well as sea navigation. Their elevation is 70 feet above the level of the sea, enabling them to be seen 19 miles."
* Carpender pointed out that the lights were too close together, causing them to blend and appear as a single light at a short distance. Also being horizontal they "were likely to come into a range with each other, by which .they also appear single." Carpender’s remedy for this was to convert them from horizontal to perpendicular beams, but his suggestion was never carried out.
* In 1842 the Gurnet lighthouses were rebuilt and the new structures, while still of wood, each had a distinctive design. In 1871 the lights were of the sixth order and were declared by the Lighthouse Board to be "entirely too small" and "readily mistaken for the lights in a dwelling house, when they can be seen at all." Their distance apart was also too short to afford an efficient range. Nothing ever came of the recommendation that they be replaced with fourth-order lights "separated by a proper distance for an effective range.
* After 1851, Thomas Treble followed Joseph Burgess as keeper. His successors were William Sears, Milton Reamy, Edward S. Gorham, Henry L. Pingree, and A. S. Eisener.  Keeper Reed rescued the crew of the mine sweeper U. S. S. Swan stranded on Gurnet Beach on November 28, 1920 and Keeper Davis in 1929 had a long list of rescues to his credit.
* Gurnet Light had lost its importance as a light as Plymouth Harbor lost its shipping traffic over the years. Not until Cape Cod Canal was opened in 1914 did the lighthouse again become an important coastal beacon.  In 1924 the northeast tower was discontinued and the station is now described as a white, octagonal, pyramidal tower, with white dwelling, 39 feet above ground and 102 feet above water. Its 700,000 candlepower, fourth-order electric light shows group flashing white every 20 seconds and is visible for 16 miles. An air diaphragm horn blasts for 3 seconds every 15 seconds during fog.