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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
01/17/24 - Forty Mile Point Lighthouse (MI) looking for pre-1996 photographs of structure to create a new timeline display

01/17/24 - Community Visioning Workshop to focus on future of Curtis Island Lighthouse (ME)

01/16/24 - $3.6 million in improvements planned for Sohier Park, the popular overlook for Cape Neddick Lighthouse (ME)

01/15/24 - Gasparilla Island Lighthouse (FL) reopens to visitors after being closed 3 months due to hurricanes

01/14/24 - Scott and Karen Dombrowski retire after 32 years as Goat Island Lighthouse (ME) keepers

01/08/24 - Coast Guard crew helps with restoration of Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse (ME)

01/07/24 - Multiple fire departments respond to report of smoke inside keepers' duplex at Bodie Island Lighthouse (NC)

01/06/24 - Trail to Point Bonita Lighthouse closed until January 12 so a small landside can be cleared

01/02/24 - Oyster roast on January 5 to support Morris Island Lighthouse (SC)

12/25/24 - Poplar Point Lighthouse (RI) officially reactivated on Christmas Day

12/24/24 - Annual holiday open house will be held at Sand Point Lighthouse (MI) Dec 26 and 27

12/20/24 - A year-long celebration is planned for the 200th anniversary of Cape Florida Lighthouse (FL)

12/17/24 - Hudson-Athens Lighthouse (NY) selected for the Army Corps of Engineers protection program

12/15/24 - Ribbon cutting ceremony held at 152nd anniversary of the newly repainted Bolivar Point Lighthouse (TX)

12/13/24 - Poplar Point Lighthouse (RI) to be relit after 142 years

12/11/24 - TMI Coatings hired to paint and refurbish Port Washington Breakwater Lighthouse for $2.4 million

12/10/24 - A $1.6 million exterior restoration of Yaquina Bay Lighthouse (OR) is planned for 2025

12/08/24 - Positions as volunteer lighthouse keepers are now open for the 2025 season at White Shoal Lighthouse (MI)

12/06/24 - Biloxi Lighthouse (MS) bathed in red and green lights for the holidays

12/06/24 - Work to lift keepers' duplex at Ocracoke Lighthouse (NC) 5 feet and transform its first floor into a visitors center has begun

12/05/24 - Grandson returns to Coney Island Lighthouse (NY) where his grandfather served as the country's last civilian lighthouse keeper

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