Lighthouse Friends

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This site includes photographs, directions, histories, and GPS coordinates garnered while personally visiting every lighthouse in the United States and nearly every lighthouse in Canada.

Latest U.S. and Canadian Lighthouse News
02/17/19 - Public can now book overnight stays at Haig Point Lighthouse (SC) on Daufuskie Island
02/15/19 - Surprise donation gives committee half of the $200,000 needed to rebuild Cole Shoal Lighthouse (ON)
02/14/19 - GoFundMe account established to offset cost of repairing damage to Grosse Ile Lighthouse (MI) by ice pile-up in Detroit River
02/13/19 - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to carry out a $1.6 million rehabilitation of pier at Waukegan Lighthouse (IL)
02/12/19 - Tour hours for St. Joseph Pier Lighthouse (MI) will be expanded in 2019
02/11/19 - Door County Historical Society seeks photographs of Eagle Bluff Lighthouse (WI) to guide future restoration work
02/08/19 - Lee Radzak, manager of Split Rock Lighthouse, to retire after 36 years at the site
02/04/19 - Notices of Availability posted for four Florida lighthouses: Alligator Reef, American Shoal, Carysfort Reef, and Sombrero Key
02/04/19 - City granted extension to spend $401,736 in federal aid on Rondout Lighthouse (NY)
02/01/19 - Over 50 couples being considered as new innkeepers for East Brother Lighthouse (CA)
02/01/19 - License plates now available to help preserve Sabine Pass Lighthouse (LA)
02/01/19 - New blowhole opens up near Point Arena Lighthouse (CA)
01/31/19 - Gasparilla Island Lighthouse (FL) to be relighted using a replica Fresnel lens during ceremony on February 9
01/25/19 - With restoration work progessing well, Old Cape Henry Lighthouse (VA) should reopen in March
01/25/19 - New caretakers to move into Forty Mile Point Lighthouse (MI)
01/23/19 - Restoration work underway on keepers' dwelling at St. Augustine Lighthouse (FL)
01/21/19 - Public can peek inside Manistee Pierhead Lighthouse (MI) as part of city's sesquicentennial celebration next summer
01/17/19 - USLHS passport program is helping preserve lighthouses $1 at a time

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