The East End Seaport Museum is starting an $880,000 project to stabilize and restore the Long Beach Bar "Bug" Lighthouse off ...

This promotional card for The Lighthouse in Cedar Rapids probably was created before 1931, when two men were denied entry to the restaurant and rammed their vehicle through the entrance, destroying ...

The oldest lighthouse in Massachusetts is over 300 years old. When the Massachusetts Bay Colony was first founded in 1630, the Puritans struggled from a scarcity of necessary survival goods which lead ...

STRATFORD — The town hopes to become the next owner of the Stratford Point Lighthouse, an iconic structure that has stood at the mouth of the Housatonic River for more than a century. The federal ...

After Newport was founded in 1639, the waterfront town grew into a bustling trading port, serving as Newport's main source of economic growth throughout the 18th century. As trade flourished, the ...

“Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There's a human story at every lighthouse; that's the story I want to tell," wrote author Elinor DeWire. She has penned many books about ...

The Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse, museum and grounds feature 5,000 years of regional history, nestled on the banks of the Jupiter Inlet. The landmark 1860 lighthouse sits on an historic sand point where ...

The winds howled and the waves crashed 100 feet below as J.P. Pelletier, a burly union ironworker from Buffalo, New York, inched his way out onto dizzying scaffolding near the top of Pigeon Point ...

A historic lighthouse in Connecticut is available to certain entities, according to the U.S. General Services Administration. The GSA issued a notice of availability for the Stratford Point Lighthouse ...

Waves crash against the St. George Reef Lighthouse in October 2021. The inactive lighthouse, about six miles off the coast of Crescent City, Calif., was first illuminated on Oct. 20, 1892. John ...

As New Hampshire's only deep water port, the Portsmouth Harbor on the Piscataqua River was an important trading port in colonial America. The success of the port soon lead to the need for a lighthouse ...