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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
10/30/20 - Dry ice blasting being tested for paint removal on Cape Hatteras Lighthouse (NC)
10/30/20 - Two people stranded at Cleveland Ledge Lighthouse (MA) after their boat drifts away
10/29/20 - Cape George Lighthouse (NS) and Annandale Rear Range Lighthouse (PEI) designated heritage lighthouses
10/28/20 - Legal battle brewing over whether Graves Lighthouse (MA) is part of Town of Hull and if taxes are owed
10/26/20 - Surfing museum in Santa Cruz Lighthouse (CA) opens to public for first time since March
10/24/20 - Navy team safely detonates World War II ordinance found near Cape Hatteras Lighthouse (NC)
10/23/20 - Lighthouse Sunset Experience for groups of up to six people are now offered atop Key West Lighthouse (FL)
10/23/20 - Cape Hatteras Lighthouse (NC) closed until World War II bomb that washed up on beach can be detonated
10/23/20 - New shutters that had been missing for 90 years added to Mission Point Lighthouse (MI) as part of projects to mark its 150th birthday
10/22/20 - Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse (FL) holding virtual "Step Up" fundraiser in place of annual "Redezvous at the Light"
10/22/20 - Garden Key Lighthouse (FL) is being dismantled as part of a $4.5 million restoration by the National Park Service
10/21/20 - Columbia River Maritime Museum has raised $490,000 of the over $1 million needed to restore Lightship Columbia (OR)
10/21/20 - Hostelling International to convert hostels at Pigeon Point and Point Montara Lighthouses (CA) to vacation rentals
10/19/20 - Anonymous donor gives $250,000 for riprap to protect Round Island Lighthouse (MI)
10/17/20 - Initial close date for Sand Key Lighthouse (FL) auction set for November 17
10/15/20 - Mukilteo Lighthouse (WA) receiving a new Coast-Guard-red roof
10/15/20 - Committee looking at new fundraising sources for Oak Orchard Lighthouse (NY) after annual fundraising dinner had to be canceled
10/11/20 - Volunteer keepers continue improvements at New Dungeness Lighthouse (WA) during the pandemic
10/10/20 - Old Cape Henry Lighthouse (VA) reopens to public with COVID restrictions
10/10/20 - Jimmy Buffet records two music videos at Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse (MD)
10/08/20 - Artist paints a Christmas card of Owls Head Lighthouse (ME) to benefit the American Lighthouse Foundation
10/07/20 - Vandals break lock securing entry door at Ned's Point Lighthouse (MA)
10/06/20 - Revetment wall to be built this fall at a cost of $250,000 to protect West Point Lighthouse (PEI)
10/06/20 - Ocracoke Lighthouse (NC) vandalized twice in the past 2 weeks
10/06/20 - Rare open house for Stratford Point Lighthouse (CT) offered on October 17
10/05/20 - Annual Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial at Split Rock Lighthouse (MN) will be online this year
10/03/20 - Port Clinton Lighthouse Conservancy (OH) purchases Lightkeeper sculpture for $47,000
10/02/20 - Group plans to restore Titanic Memorial Lighthouse (NY) and petition for historic landmark status
10/02/20 - Portage River (Jacobsville) Lighthouse on the market for $519,000
10/01/20 - Annual New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge will be virtual this year and last the entire month of October
10/01/20 - Ceremonies on October 3 will honor five Chesapeake Bay lighthouse keepers

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