St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in Florida celebrated its 88th birthday on Thursday. The celebration included the relighting of the St. Marks Lighthouse for the first time in nearly 20 years. After years of renovations, more than $1.3 million was raised by the Friends of St. Marks Wildlife Refuge to restore the lighthouse. A $40,000… Continue reading Lighthouse News of the Week
Yaquina Bay, the place where the Yaquina River empties into the Pacific about two-thirds of the way up the Oregon coast, takes its name from the Native American tribe that once populated the area. After Congress appropriated $20,000 for a lighthouse at the north side of the mouth of the bay, supplies were landed by… Continue reading Oregon’s Yaquina Bay Lighthouse, “The Haunted Light”
Waugoshance Lighthouse (MI) endangered by erosion High water levels on Lake Michigan, combined with storms, have damaged the foundation of Waugoshance Lighthouse. “I drove by it and there was a gaping, glaring hole in the foundation that hadn’t been there before,” tour operator Brent Tompkins recently said. Chris West, president of the board for Waugoshance… Continue reading Lighthouse News of the Week
New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge this weekend, Oct. 19-20 This weekend you can visit 10 participating lighthouses, three life-saving stations, and one museum, while supporting the ongoing preservation of these historic beacons, during the 20th annual Lighthouse Challenge of New Jersey on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 19 and 20. All participating sites are open during the… Continue reading Lighthouse News of the Week
Door County Fall Lighthouse Festival this weekend, Oct. 12-13 Door County has one of the highest concentrations of lighthouses of any county in the U.S., and visitors can see all 11 of them by foot or boat at the Door County Maritime Museum’s Fall Lighthouse Festival. The Festival weekend include land-based, boat, and adventure tours… Continue reading Lighthouse News of the Week
Captain Joshua K. Card reporting from Light Station Portsmouth Harbor, New Hampshire. Today I want to tell you about a female light keeper over New York way whose career overlapped with mine. Nancy Rose was the faithful keeper at Stony Point on the Hudson River for more than a half century. Stony Point, a small… Continue reading The Kaptain’s Kolumn #22
Gasparilla Island Lighthouse (FL) Tours on Oct. 14 and 27 There will be rare docent-led tours of the Gasparilla Island Lighthouse, Florida, a.k.a. Port Boca Grande Lighthouse, from 9 a.m. to noon on October 14 and 27. All proceeds support the continuing restoration and preservation of this historical treasure. Click here for more information Click… Continue reading Lighthouse News of the Week
Ribbon cutting for new Lighthouse Park in Marquette, MI Marquette City Mayor Fred Stonehouse performed the official ribbon cutting Thursday on Marquette’s newest park, officially named Lighthouse Park. “This is a wonderful park for the people in the City of Marquette. It really is a prime piece of property. . . . It’s a place… Continue reading Lighthouse News of the Week
Celebration of new owner of Duxbury Pier Lighthouse (MA) On Saturday, September 14, the deed to Duxbury Pier Light Station, better known on Boston’s South Shore as “Bug Light,” was officially transferred to Project Gurnet & Bug Lights, Inc., from the U.S. Department of the Interior. Saturday’s celebration took place aboard the paddle-wheeler Pilgrim Belle,… Continue reading Lighthouse News of the Week
Tomorrow (Saturday, Sept. 14) is Maine Open Lighthouse Day This popular annual event, which is sponsored by the United States Coast Guard, the Maine Office of Tourism and the American Lighthouse Foundation, attracts between 15,000 to 18,000 visitors each year and offers the general public the rare opportunity to climb and learn about over two… Continue reading Lighthouse News of the Week
