For years, Door County, Wisconsin has boasted it has more lighthouses than any other county in the nation. According to Brian Kelsey, executive director of the Door County Maritime Museum, Suffolk County of New York has the most regional Lighthouses with 15 of its 26 lighthouses still standing.
Yet, Robert G. Miller, author of Long [...]
Today, local Fire Island residents walked for world peace reflecting on the past terrorist attacks and the 2,974 victims. The event begins at the No Name Walk in Lonelyville, Fire Island and ends at Fire Island Lighthouse, a 168-feet high brick Landmark viewed by many European travelers and immigrants as the first sight of [...]
The Frogster was surfing the digital waterways of the internet and sailed by New England Lighthouses looking for a job as a Lighthouse Keeper. Sorry I said, the only official Lighthouse Keeper in New England has a job at Boston Harbor Lighthouse.
The Frogster left his resume for consideration as a Lighthouse Keeper [...]
Franks Island Lighthouse was designed by the Benjamin Henry Latrobe, a renowned architect and engineer of famous historical buildings, as a monumental Lighthouse to mark the entrance to the Mississippi River for President Thomas Jefferson, who had recently acquired the Louisiana Territory.
Unfortunately, Latrobe’s Lighthouse tower and colonnade collapsed shortly before completion in 1820. Despite [...]
In strange Lighthouse news, the buyer of Fourteen Foot Bank Lighthouse has never visited the Lighthouse and had no idea his future summer Getaway was eleven miles offshore! The federal description of the location of the Lighthouse was listed incorrectly as 3-miles offshore from Bowers Beach.
Michael L. Gabriel, a Californian lawyer, bought the [...]
The 8th Soundkeeper’s Lighthouse to Lighthouse Race is scheduled for this Saturday, September 8. Competitors with human powered seaworthy vessels will race around Pecks Ledge Lighthouse and paddle south passing by Sheffield Island Lighthouse to Greens Ledge Lighthouse where the racers will return following the same course to the finish line at Compo [...]
In literally ground-breaking news, the Blazing Star of Nantucket, better known as Sankaty Head Lighthouse, will be slowly moved 390-feet to the northwest and 250-feet from Sconset bluff’s edge to a safer location inland next to the fifth hole of the Sankaty Head Golf Course.
The 450-ton brick Lighthouse will be relocated next month by [...]
Buffalo Lighthouse, the Harbor Guardian and Gateway to Buffalo, New York, has been closed to the public since 9/11 for the security of a working Coast Guard base which protects the ports of Lake Ontario and the eastern harbors of Lake Erie.
Recently, Legislation sponsored by Rep. Brian Higgins and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton may [...]
After 37 years of darkness, Great Captain Island Lighthouse is one step closer to becoming a restored Light of the Night. According to the “Return the Light” organization, $300,000 was donated in memory of the late Bennett “Ben” Fisher who was murdered by the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. [...]
On Aug 25, 2007, Jeffrey Patten completed a 7-mile “Light 2 Light” swim from Boon Island Lighthouse to Nubble Lighthouse located offshore from Cape Neddick, Maine in six hours and 38 minutes. Jeff’s swim raised over $15,000 for York Hospital’s “Caring For All” charity program to help the uninsured and underinsured people living [...]