Lighthouses have been the beacon of light for more than 100 years that symbolized safety and security for ships and boats at sea. On Aug. 9, 1789, Congress approved an Act for the establishment and ...

The Lake County Historical Society has removed the beacon of the iconic Two Harbors Light Station, located between Burlington and Agate bays. The beacon went dark Nov. 25 due to a failure that ...

It wasn’t just fireworks lighting up the night sky in Two Harbors, Minn., this Fourth of July. For the first time in six years, the iconic light from the North Shore city’s lighthouse beacon 25 miles ...

The Plum Beach and Poplar Point lighthouses, just a couple of miles away from each other off North Kingstown, are getting new lighting systems that will strengthen their beams and better resemble how ...

Lighthouse Recovery Program’s annual fundraiser and awards banquet, “Beacon of Hope,” is set for 6 p.m. on Tuesday at the Owensboro Christian Church Community Center. Lighthouse Recovery Program is a ...

In the early 1830s, heeding the requests of mariners both ancient and otherwise, Congress approved the building of a lighthouse on Assateague Island. There is still a lighthouse there, and it’s a ...

The Point Reyes peninsula, the windiest location on the Pacific Coast and the second-foggiest place on the North American continent, has been the scene of hundreds of shipwrecks dating from the ...

The last lighthouse keeper in the U. S. tends the Boston Light Beacon on Little Brewster Island in outer Boston Harbor. After two decades on the job, Sally Snowman plans to retire this month at age 72 ...

MANTEO, N.C. (WNCN) — An iconic North Carolina lighthouse is getting a makeover. Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, known for its black and white spiraling paint and red brick base, is covered with scaffolding ...

In 2019, I celebrated 10 years of having the privilege to lead the Pensacola Lighthouse and Maritime Museum. Looking back to 2009, economic times were bleak; but seeds of hope had been planted in ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Two iconic lighthouses serve as beacons of history along the Charleston, South Carolina coast. Congress passed an act which protects all lighthouses, beacons, and buoys on ...

While maybe not the important aids to navigation that they once were, lighthouses up and down the East Coast — including in ...