Castillo de San Filipe de Morro Lighthouse, Puerto Rico

This lighthouse is located in the Castillo de San Filipe de Morro in Old San Juan, Puerto.  This present one was constructed with a Moorish appearance in 1908.  You can tour it, along with the Castillo, as both are part of National Park Service territory.

Cockspur Island Lighthouse, Georgia

This lighthouse on Cockspur Island was built in 1855 on an oyster bed foundation.  This 46 foot tower has an eastern side that is shaped like the prow of a ship to help it withstand the battering it takes from the waters that surround it.  During the Civil War when the Confederate forces fell to the Union, the Cockspur Lighthouse stood directly in the line of fire in the 30 hours of battle.   It suffered no damage. The lighthouse resumed operating in 1866 until 1949 when the Coast Guard abandoned it.  This lighthouse is part of  Fort Pulaski National Monument. 

Yaquin Head Lighthouse, Oregon

This lighthouse was built between 1871 and 1873, and automated in 1966.   It has a light characteristic of two seconds on, two seconds off, two seconds on again, and fourteen seconds off.

Yaquin Head was formerly known as Cape Foulweather.

Sapelo Island Lighthouse, Georgia

Sapelo Island Lighthouse was built in 1820 built by Winslow Lewis. It had a fifteen Lewis lamps with 16 in reflectors. The tower had fourth-order Fresnel lens installed in 1854. During the Civil War, the lens was removed. It was extensively repaired after an 1867 storm and relit in 1868. The tower received hurricane damage in 1898.


The lighthouse was replaced in 1905 by a skeletal tower, and was discontinued from service.  It was relit in 1998, and is privately owned.

Sabine Pass Lighthouse, Louisiana

This octagon-shaped lighthouse is located in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.  It was first lit in 1857, and deactivated in 1952.  From 1932 onward it had two black daymarks on it to distinguish it through the haze around the Sabine River.  Each of the eight sides has its own buttress.