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.

Tchefuncte River Lighthouse, Louisiana

This small lighthouse is located where the Tchefuncte River flows into Lake Pontchartrain near Madisonville, LA.

 

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It was built in 1837.

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, North Carolina

This often-photographed lighthouse is memorable for its black-and-white peppermint stripes.

Sand Island Lighthouse, Alabama

This lighthouse, located on the southernmost point of Alabama, was originally built in 1838.  It was first lit in 1871, automated in 1921, and decommissioned in 1933.  It stands out!

Point Reyes Lighthouse, California

Because Point Reyes is the windiest place on the Pacific Coast and very foggy, a lighthouse was strongly needed to safeguard ships entering or leaving Francisco Bay.  This lighthouse was built in 1870 and was retired from service in 1975 when the U.S. Coast Guard installed an automated light. The lighthouse currently is owned by the National Park Service.  The Point itself has terrific scenery.

Bodie Island Lighthouse, North Carolina

Bodie Island lighthouse, built in 1872, stands 165 feet tall.  It was automated in 1940.  Marked by the alternating black and white bands, it's one of the lighthouses of the Outer Banks.

Bolivar Point Lighthouse, Texas

This historic lighthouse was first proposed by the Republic of Texas, but finished in 1851 after Texas joined the Union.  It was located on the eastern part of Galveston Island, and away from other places.

It served as a shelter for 120 people during the Galveston Hurricane of 1900; and was accidentally damaged due to target practice from a shore battery in 1917.  

It was retired from service in 1930.

Colchester Reef Lighthouse, Vermont

This lighthouse is located on Lake Champlain in Vermont.  It entered service in 1871; and was decommissioned in 1933.

New Basin Canal Lighthouse, New Orleans

The New Basin Canal Lighthouse was built in 1838 where the New Basin Canal joined Lake Ponchartrain.  It was destroyed by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, but rebuilt in 2013.

Photograph New Basin Lighthouse Collapse 3 by Infrogmation.

Cape Flattery Lighthouse, Washington

This lighthouse is on Tatoosh Island at the beginning of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Neah Bay.  It was built in 1854.  This is a common sight from vessels traveling from or to Seattle and Tacoma.

Sombrero Key Lighthouse, Florida

This 142 ft. brown structure is the largest lighthouse in the Florida Keys.  It was built in 1858 under the supervision of Lt. George Meade, automated in 1960, and is still in operation.

Mobile Bay Lighthouse, Alabama

This octagon-shaped lighthouse stands in the middle of Mobile Bay in Alabama.  It was also known as Middle Bay light.  It was activated in 1885, deactivated in 1967.

The wife of the lighthouse keeper had a baby in 1916.  They kept a cow for milk on the lower part.

Southwest Reef Lighthouse, Berwick, LA

This lighthouse was built in 1858 and originally located on a reef near the entrance of Atchafalaya River south of Morgan City and Berwick.  It was relocated next to the western docks in Berwick in 1987.

I remember it from its original place back in 1966.  It was colored white then.

The original lighthouse

In its present-day location at Berwick, LA.