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Atlantic City, New Jersey
Absecon Lighthouse, completed in 1857, is New Jersey's tallest lighthouse and was built after the wreck of the Powhatan in 1854, in which…
Fernandina Beach, Florida
After Congress funded the move in 1838, the Cumberland Island Lighthouse was dismantled brick by brick, shipped across the river, and…
Big Bay, Michigan
Big Bay Point Lighthouse stands on a bluff above Lake Superior north of Marquette and has marked this stretch of shoreline since 1896. It…
Buxton, North Carolina
The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, completed in 1870 and the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States, guards the Graveyard of the…
Dunkirk, New York
Visitors and paranormal groups at the Dunkirk Lighthouse describe music playing with no source, people walking through the keeper's house…
Fairport Harbor, Ohio
The Fairport Harbor lighthouse, built in 1871 on a bluff above the Grand River and Lake Erie, is now part of the Fairport Harbor Marine…
Fire Island, New York
The Fire Island Lighthouse, completed in 1858, is a landmark on the barrier island south of Long Island, guarding the approach to New York…
Port Huron, Michigan
Fort Gratiot Lighthouse at the mouth of the St. Clair River dates to the 1820s and is one of the oldest surviving lighthouses on the Great…
Florence, Oregon
Heceta Head Lighthouse, completed in 1894 on a headland north of Florence, is among the most photographed lighthouses on the Oregon coast.…
Jupiter, Florida
First illuminated on July 10, 1860, the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse went dark for most of the Civil War after assistant keeper Augustus Lang…
Key West, Florida
The first Key West lighthouse, built in 1825, was destroyed in the Great Havana Hurricane of 1846, which killed 14 people who had taken…
Kilauea, Hawaii
Commissioned in 1913 on a windswept point on Kauaʻi's north shore, Kīlauea Point Lighthouse guided ships across the Pacific for decades…
Tybee Island, Georgia
Tybee Island's light station traces back to 1736, though storms and erosion destroyed three earlier towers before the current one,…
New London, Connecticut
Built in 1902 as "Meadow Court," a private summer estate for steel magnate Charles S. Guthrie, the Mission-style mansion was converted into…
New Haven, Connecticut
The carousel at Lighthouse Point Park was carved around 1905 by Charles Looff and Charles Carmel and housed in a Renaissance Revival…
Scituate, Massachusetts
Minot's Ledge Light stands on a rock about a mile off the coast at Cohasset and Scituate. The first tower, an iron-legged structure, was…
Groton, Connecticut
Story has it, that John "Ernie" Randolph and his wife lived at the LedgeLight, which sits out in the middle of the Ocean, just at the…
Presque Isle, Michigan
The Old Presque Isle Lighthouse on Lake Huron was built in 1840 and is one of the oldest surviving lighthouses in Michigan, now a museum…
Pensacola, Florida
Perched on Pensacola's Naval Air Station, this 160-year-old lighthouse has been called one of the most haunted in America by the Travel…
Brimley, Michigan
Point Iroquois Lighthouse, built in 1870 at the entrance to the St. Marys River near Sault Ste. Marie, is now a maritime museum in the…
Point Lookout, Maryland
Point Lookout Lighthouse, built in 1830 at the tip of Maryland's western shore, stands in a state park on the site of the Civil War's Camp…
Big Sur, California
Point Sur Lightstation stands on a volcanic rock off Highway 1 and is now a California State Historic Park. Docents tell of an apparition…
New Castle, New Hampshire
Portsmouth Harbor Light stands beside Fort Constitution. Witnesses report voices in the watch room and a keeper in a pea coat, usually…
Newport, Rhode Island
Rose Island Lighthouse, built in 1870, stands on an 18-acre island in Narragansett Bay that also holds the ruins of Fort Hamilton. It was…