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
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
09/29/20 - Great Lakes Conservation Corps removes debris from Stannard Rock Lighthouse (MI) and takes measurements for new windows
09/28/20 - Round Island Lighthouse (MS) reopens for tours after six-month closure
09/28/20 - Elaine Graham to leave Point Atkinson Lighthouse (BC) after forty years
09/24/20 - Airplane tours and Algoma Pierhead Lighthouse (WI) added to Fall Door County Lighthouse Festival
09/23/20 - Daytime tours of Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse (FL) resume after three weeks of maintenance work
09/22/20 - Jim Woodward honored with the 2020 F. Ross Holland Lifetime Achievement Award by the U.S. Lighthouse Society
09/21/20 - Sections of the replacement Lion's Head Harbour Lighthouse (ON) were lifted into place on September 21
09/21/20 - Cape Vincent looking to take ownership of keeper's dwellings at Tibbetts Point Lighthouse (NY)
09/18/20 - Design phase underway for restoration of Cape Hatteras Lighthouse (NC) that will include marble floors, metalwork, and repainting the tower
09/18/20 - $60,000 grant will address shoreline erosion at Piney Point Lighthouse (MD)

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