Our country’s history of helping sailors navigate North American waters dates all the way back to 1673, when, according to the United States Lighthouse Society, a beacon was hoisted in Nantasket (now ...

Our country’s history of helping sailors navigate North American waters dates all the way back to 1673, when, according to the United States Lighthouse Society, a beacon was hoisted in Nantasket (now ...

For some travelers, the lure of a lighthouse is irresistible. Just ask Kraig Anderson, who took a trip to see one in North Carolina more than a decade ago, and has since visited every beacon in the ...

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On Little Brewster Island in Massachusetts Bay, Boston Light remains the oldest operating lighthouse in the United States, a landmark steeped in maritime history and a defining feature of the ...

Frank Schubert, the last civilian keeper of a coastal U.S. lighthouse, has died. He was 88 and died of natural causes Dec. 11. Schubert died where he had lived, in the seven-room brick cottage beneath ...