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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
10/16/21 - Lantern room placed atop Browns Point Lighthouse (WA) in time for a public celebration on October 17
10/16/21 - Relighting ceremony caps off restoration of New Point Comfort Lighthouse (VA)
10/15/21 - City establishes fund to raise $1 million to restore Frankfort Breakwater Lighthouse (MI)
10/15/21 - Friends of Rockland Harbor Lights (ME) turns responsibility for maintaining the breakwater lighthouse back to city
10/14/21 - Stewardship work day planned in preparation for 150th anniversary of Trinidad Head Lighthouse (CA)
10/12/21 - Mural painted to celebrate Marblehead Lighthouse (OH) bicentennial
10/11/21 - Public invited to Split Rock Lighthouse (MN) for annual Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Beacon Lighting, which was online only last year
10/07/21 - ICC Commonwealth has been at work on restoring Nauset Lighthouse (MA) since September 14
10/07/21 - Another option proposed for returning a Fresnel lens to Cape Hatteras Lighthouse (NC)
10/05/21 - Ned's Point Lighthouse reopens to tours after being closed for two years due to lead in the lantern room
10/05/21 - Rededication event for Browns Point Lighthouse (WA) will be held on October 17 from 2 to 4 p.m.
10/05/21 - Lantern light tours of Split Rock Lighthouse (MN) will be offered on Saturday, October 9
10/05/21 - U.S. Lighthouse Serivce Markers installed at graves of Keepers William Yeatman and William Yeatman, Jr. during ceremony held in Maryland
10/04/21 - Preservation society secures 25-year lease for St. George Reef Lighthouse (CA); public helicopter flights should resume in 2022
10/04/21 - Production company donates $10,000 to Bald Head Island Lighthouse (NC) while filming One Summer on the island
10/02/21 - Fundraiser for Huron Island Lighthouse (MI) secures a $20,000 donation from the Holman Family Foundation
10/02/21 - Lightship Columbia (OR) to be towed to Portland to be restored and enhanced with new exhibit spaces
10/01/21 - Governor signs state budget that includes $5.2 million for Point Betsie Lighthouse (MI)
10/01/21 - Annual Door County Maritime Museum's Fall Lighthouse Festival is October 1 - 3
10/01/21 - Annual Lighthouse Challenge of New Jersey is October 16 - 17
9/30/21 - Rock walls and exterior masonry of keeper's dwelling repaired this summer at Point Iroquois Lighthouse (MI)
9/30/21 - Three options for improvements at Cape Hatteras Lighthouse (NC) presented during public meeting
9/30/21 - Fifth phase of restoration completed at Cape Neddick Lighthouse (ME)
9/30/21 - Surge in visitors causing parking issues at Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse (ME)
9/30/21 - Society wraps up a summer of restoration projects at Five Finger Islands Lighthouse (AK)
9/30/21 - Chris Manning appointed keeper of Gay Head Lighthouse (MA)
9/27/21 - U.S. Lighthouse Society is holding a kickoff event at Point Wilson Lighthouse (WA) on September 28 for next round of restoration
9/27/21 - Morris Island Lighthouse (SC) will be lit up on October 1 to commemorate first lighting of Charleston Lighthouse
9/26/21 - Fundraiser for Cape Canaveral Lighthouse (FL) will be held at American Muscle Car Museum on October 23
9/23/21 - Estimated price tag to restore and paint Port Washington Breakwater Lighthouse (WI) is $1.7 million
9/21/21 - Tortugas Harbor (Garden Key) Lighthouse (FL) back atop fort after being restored by Robinson Iron in Alabama
9/20/21 - Soil remediation at East Chop Lighthouse (MA) likely to be delayed until 2022
9/20/21 - Election official visits 27 lighthouses in British Columbia so 67 keepers can vote in national election
9/20/21 - 20th annual Ceremony of Remembrance held at Edgartown Lighthouse Children's Memorial (MA)
9/18/21 - Public comment sought on planned improvements at Cape Hatteras Lighthouse (NC)
9/17/21 - Webcam and weather station added to Lightship Overfalls (DE)
9/17/21 - Tickets still available for tour of Little Traverse Lighthouse (MI) on Oct. 1 & 2

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