South Carolina is home to nine remaining lighthouses, while at least another 10 have been lost time. Here's a rundown of the ...

Due to forecasts of high winds and afternoon thunderstorms, the Tybee Lighthouse will not be flying their giant American flag ...

Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station, Fla. At 175 feet tall, Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station is Florida's tallest lighthouse. It was completed in 1887, and when the kerosene lamp in the first-order ...

Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse By Eric Jay Dolin Liveright Publishing/W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2016. 560 pages. $29.95. Stolid and steadfast in the face of India… ...

How Lighthouses Changed American History. 5 minute read. A view from the water against a backdrop of the city's skyline of Boston Light, the country's first lighthouse, ...

ALCATRAZ ISLAND, CALIF. — For 150 years the lighthouse beacon here has alerted sailors to San Francisco’s rocky, fog-shrouded coast. It beamed from the island when it housed a Civil War-era ...

But it's far from the only lighthouse in Rhode Island. While Michigan has the most lighthouses in the United States, with ...

Sand Hills Lighthouse Inn in Ahmeek, situated on Lake Superior along the Keweenaw Peninsula is featured in "The American Lighthouse Cookbook." ...

In the new, critically lauded book "Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse" (Liveright, 560 pages, $29.95), author Eric Jay Dolin reminds us that lighthouses - now oft-overlooked ...

While American lighthouses have long been automated, ... During the heyday of lighthouses in the late 1800s and early 1900s, close to 900 manned lighthouses dotted the shores of the United ...

The lighthouse is currently leased to the New London Ledge Lighthouse Foundation, a chapter of the American Lighthouse Foundation. If no suitable organization is found, the second step is an ...