December 26, 2011I have written up and published the history of the Romer Shoal Lighthouse which sits about 2.5 miles off the tip of Sandy Hook, New Jersey. November 24, 2011I have written up and published the history of the New Castle Front Range Lighthouse in New Castle, Delaware. November 11, 2011I have added the history of the Marcus Hook Lighthouse in Bellefonte, DE. November 6, 2011I have added the last lighthouse from our trip this past summer. It is the Watch Hill Lighthouse in Westerly, Rhode Island. November 5, 2011I have added the Saybrook Breakwater and the Old Saybrook (Lynde Point) Lighthouses. November 4, 2011I have added the Latimer Reef Lighthouse in Fishers Island Sound, NY. October 31, 2011I've added the Point Judith Lighthouse in Narragansett, Rhode Island. October 30, 2011I have added the Bristol Ferry and the Hog Island Shoal Lighthouses to the site. October 27, 2011I have added the Sakonnet Lighthouse in Little Compton, Rhode Island to the site. October 26, 2011I have added the Borden Flats Lighthouse in Fall River, Massachusetts to the site. October 23, 2011I have added the Palmer Island Lighthouse in New Bedford, Massachusetts to the site. October 11, 2011I have added the Butler Flats Lighthouse in New Bedford, Massachusetts. October 10, 2011I have added the Bird Island and the Ned's Point, and the Clark's Point Lighthouses, all of which are in Massachusetts. October 9, 2011I have added a few more of the Rhode Island lighthouses to the site. Added today are the Newport Harbor, the Rose Island, and the Conanicut Island Lighthouses. October 6, 2011Today, I have added the Ida Lewis (Lime Rock) Lighthouse and the Nantucket (WLV-612) Lightship, which are both in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island October 3, 2011I have added a few more of the Rhode Island lighthouses. Added today are the Whale Rock Lighthouse. October 1, 2011I have added a few more of the Rhode Island lighthouses. Added today are the Plum Beach and the Dutch Island Lighthouses. September 30, 2011I have enabled commenting on the photos again. September 24, 2011I am continuing to add lighthouses from our trip back in June. Today, I have added pictures of the Pomham Rocks, Warwick, and the Poplar Point Lighthouses in Rhode Island. September 17, 2011I have added pictures of the Nayatt Point Lighthouse in Barrington, Rhode Island. September 16, 2011I am starting to add the lighthouses from our past trip back in June. I have added the Conimicut Point Lighthouse in Warwick, Rhode Island. September 5, 2011I have written up and published the history of the Fenwick Island Lighthouse in Fenwick Island, Delaware. August 21, 2011I have written up and published the history of the Cherry Island Rear Range Lighthouse in Wilmington, Delaware. August 15, 2011I have added several new pictures of the Buffalo Main, Buffalo Outer Breakwater, Intake Crib, and the Horseshoe Reef Lighthouses. Contributor Brian Margavich has sent several new photos of the Biloxi Lighthouse, which have also been added to the site. August 14, 2011I have written up and published the history of the Michigan City East Pierhead Lighthouse in Michigan City, Indiana. August 8, 2011I have written up and published the history of the Old Michigan City Lighthouse. July 23, 2011I have written up and published the history of the Gary Harbor Breakwater Lighthouse. July 20, 2011I have written up and published the history of the Buffington Breakwater Lighthouse in East Chicago, Indiana. July 10, 2011I have added new pictures of Castle Hill and Beavertail Lighthouses to the site. July 4, 2011I have added new pictures of Stonington Harbor Lighthouse to the site. July 3, 2011I have started adding the pictures from our past trip. We had visited 35 lighthouses across Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. To date, I have added new pictures of New London Harbor, New London Ledge, Avery Point and the Mystic Seaport Lighthouses. There are over 700 pictures that I shot while on this trip. I will add more pictures as I get the time. June 21, 2011I have written up and published the history of the Calumet Harbor Breakwater South End Lighthouse in Illinois, which I had unknowingly listed as the Calumet Harbor Lighthouse. This oversight has been corrected. June 6, 2011I have written up and published the history of the Waukegan Lighthouse in Illinois. May 21, 2011WIVB's news station reports that the Point Abino Lightstation will undergo restoration during the summer of 2011. You can read the information on their website here and here. May 10, 2011I have added the history of the Tuckerton Seaport Lighthouse to the site. May 8, 2011I read in the Buffalo News that work is being done to allow the public to access the Buffalo Main Lighthouse. This will be the first time time since September 11, 2001 that the public will have access to the lighthouse. You can read more here. May 1, 2011I have added the history of the Sea Girt Lighthouse to the site.April 15, 2011I have added the history of the Navesink Lighthouse to the site. April 5, 2011I have added the history of the Ludlam Beach Lighthouse to the site. April 1, 2011I have added the history of the Hereford Inlet Lighthouse to the site. March 23, 2011I have added the history of the Tinicum Island Rear Range Lighthouse to the site. March 20, 2011I have added the history of the Sandy Hook Lighthouse to the site. March 18, 2011Added the history of the Finn's Point Range Light to the site. March 15, 2011I have added the history of the East Point Lighthouse to the site. March 14, 2011I have added the history behind the Cape May Lighthouse and the Conover Beacon in Leonardo, NJ. March 12, 2011I have added another New Jersey lighthouse history to the site. Added was the Barnegat Lighthouse. March 6, 2011I have started adding detailed historical information for the lighthouses of New Jersey. The first one being updated is the Absecon Lighthouse. March 5, 2011I finished up the last of the historical information for the Wisconsin lighthouses. Added were Rawley Point, Sheboygan Breakwater, and the Two Rivers Ligthouses. Look for the histories of the New Jersey Lighthouses coming soon! February 26, 2011I have added the history of the Racine Harbor and the Racine North Breakwater Lighthouses to the site. February 22, 2011I have added the history for the Port Washington Lighthouse history. February 21, 2011I have been trying to get the historical information added for the Wisconsin lighthouses that we visited back in 2007. So today, I researched and written up the history of several more lighthouses. They are Kevich, Neenah, Kewaunee, and the Manitowoc North Breakwater Lighthouses. February 8, 2011I have finally got around to researching and writing up the history of several Lake Winnebago lighthouses. They are Calumet Harbor, Fisherman's Road, Fond Du Lac, and the Bray's Point Lighthouses. November 14, 2010It was brought to my attention, that the Ludlam Beach Lighthouse was torn down on September 21, 2010. There is a picture available here. October 10, 2010Finally finished writing up the New Jersey and Delaware lighthouse trip from this past April. You can read it here. October 14, 2010Added the Tuckerton Seaport (Tucker's Island) Lighthouse. September 21, 2010Added the Oak Orchard Replica Lighthouse. September 2, 2010Added the Marshall Point Lighthouse to the site with several pictures from Dave Clark. August 31, 2010Added the Cedar Island Lighthouse entry to the site with several pictures provided by Mike Leahy. July 24, 2010I have been working on adding some history / descriptions of some of the past lighthouses that we have visited. The most recently added history pages include the Algoma Pierhead Lighthouse, Kenosha (Southport) and the Front and Rear Grassy Island Range Lights. July 12, 2010I have added several new lighthouses from our trip this past May. They are the Tinicum Rear Range, Romer Shoal, Newcastle Front Range, and the Marcus Hook Rear Range Lighthouses. June 26, 2010I have added a few more lighthouses from our trip earlier this year. Added today was the Cherry Island Rear Range and the Ludlam Beach Lighthouses. June 14, 2010I have added the Finns Point Lighthouse to the site. May 23, 2010I have added two new lighthouses to the website. They are the Conover Beacon and the East Point Lighthouse. I have also added several new pictures of the Sandy Hook and Sea Girt Lighthouses. May 8, 2010I have added several new pictures from the lighthouses of New Jersey. The additions include Navesink, Cape May, and Hereford Inlet. May 6, 2010I have started adding the pictures from our recent trip to the site. So far, I have added Absecon and Barnegat Inlet Lighthouses. April 25, 2010We are back from our lighthouse journey. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to post the light list before the trip, but I was tweaking the list right up to a day or so before leaving.
I will get the new pictures up for the lighthouses that already have entries. For the new additions to the site, I will add them as quickly as I can. April 17, 2010I have added three new Massachusetts lighthouses to the site. They are East Chop, Edgartown Harbor, and Gay Head. Thanks goes out to the Martha's Vineyard Museum for providing the pictures and text. March 28, 2010I am finalizing our plans for our first lighthouse trip of 2010. The area that we are planning to visit is the Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia areas. We might also make it over to Cape May in New Jersey. I am still figuring out which lights we will be able to visit. It will be a little more challenging this year as we will have our two-and-a-half year old son with us. But when we ask him, he says that he is excited and wants to go to the top of a lighthouse! Once I get the final list together, I will publish it. January 18, 2010Added the Turtle Rock Lighthouse in Pennsylvania to the website. You can see the page at Turtle Rock. January 16, 2010A newly redesigned US-Lighthouses.com is unveiled. I hope everyone enjoys it. September 23, 2009I have added several new lighthouses to the Nova Scotia section. They are Boars Head, Brier Island, Grand Passage, Peggy's Point, Kidston Island and Prim Point. Feel free to check them out. September 17, 2009I have added several new lighthouses to the Nova Scotia section. They are Gilbert Cove, Belliveau Cove, Cape St. Marys, and Church Point. Feel free to check them out. September 9, 2009I added several new lighthouses to the website. They are Battery Point Breakwater, Port Medway, and Medway Head Lighthouses. September 3, 2009I have started adding a bunch of lighthouses from Nova Scotia. Dennis Kent has been kind enough to contribute a bunch of photos from a trip in 2003. To date, I have added Cape Forchu, Port Bickerton, Georges Island, and Fort Point. There are still many more I have to add, so look for more to come. August 24, 2009Added the Bois Blanc Lighthouse to the website. I have also added several new photos to the website, they are of the Round Island Passage, Cheboygan River Front Range, and the Fourteen Foot Shoal Lighthouses. All of this content was provided by Dennis Kent. August 22, 2009Added several new lighthouses to the website. Dennis Kent provided several pictures of the St. Helena Island, Marquette Harbor, and McGulpin Point Lighthouses. I have also added several new photos of the Poe Reef and the Round Island Lighthouses, which were also contributed by Dennis. August 9, 2009Added Dennis Kent's Copper Harbor Lighthouse photos to the site. July 29, 2009I finally got around to adding the lighthouses that I visited while in Los Angeles back in May. While there, I visited Point Fermin, Los Angeles Harbor, and Point Vicente Lighthouses. I also started adding some of the lighthouses that Dennis Kent was kind enough to send for inclusion to the site. Please check out Grays Reef, White Shoal, and Waugoshance Lighthouses. April 9, 2009We were planning on visiting Splash Lagoon in Erie, PA. I figured while we were there, why not stop by the several lighthouses in Erie to get some updated photos. You can see my new photos of the Erie Land Lighthouse here, the Erie Pierhead Lighthouse here, and can see my new photos of the Presque Isle Lighthouse here. December 27, 2008Added the Three Sisters of Nauset lighthouses to the site. December 22, 2008Added Scituate and Highland (Cape Cod) Lighthouse pages. November 24, 2008Near the end of October, I traveled to Hyannis, Massachusetts for work. I made sure that I arrived early Sunday morning so that I would have all day to do some sightseeing. I was able to visit a bunch of lighthouses. To date, I was able to add the pictures from Nauset, Chatham, and Stage Harbor Lighthouses. I will get the rest of the pictures up as soon as possible. September 7, 2008I have now finished adding the rest of the pictures from the EM Cotter fire boat ride back in August. So added were: Buffalo Breakwater, Buffalo Main, and the Intake Crib Lighthouses. The other pictures were added previously. Also, I took a trip back in December of last year to Lake Ontario. I added most of the pictures already, but never got to adding the new pictures to Thirty Mile Point. So those were added as well. Hopefully, I can get around to writing up this trip report soon. September 2, 2008Sorry I have been absent for a while. My son has been keeping me busy. However, I do have some new pictures to share will everyone. My uncle won a trip on the EM Cotter, the fireboat for the City of Buffalo, and was able to bring guests. I was eager to attend since I knew the boat would pass by the Buffalo Main Lighthouse. However, it also passed by the Buffalo North Breakwater, Buffalo Breakwater, and the South Buffalo Southside. Off in the distance, we could see the Buffalo Intake Crib and the Horseshoe Reef Lights. I haven't had a chance to get all of the pictures up yet, but will work to do so. July 22, 2008Jeld-Wen is offering windows and doors to one of twelve lighthouses From the Jeld-Wen website: The election of the year is here! Twelve lighthouses are the final candidates from among 49 nominees in the JELD-WEN© Reliable Lighthouse Restoration Initiative. Community support is very important in preserving lighthouses, so we invite you once again to help select one lighthouse to win new JELD-WEN windows and doors. Please review these final candidates and vote on or before September 7, 2008. Feel free to forward this page to friends and neighbors in your community. One person, one vote, and every vote counts! Vote here: http://www.jeld-wen.com/lighthouse/ May 31, 2008Added several new pictures of the Barcelona Lighthouse in Westfield, NY. View all pictures added at this link. January 27, 2008I have finally finished writing the trip report for our trip to Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana last May. Sorry for the delay in getting this out. Anyways, it is published here. December 2, 2007I have started the long task of adding historical data and lighthouse descriptions to the Wisconsin lighthouses from our trip back in May. To date, I have completed the following:
November 18, 2007I have added the rest of the lighthouses from our Door County Lighthouse Trip. The lighthouses added are Waukegan Harbor, Grosse Point, Chicago Harbor, and the Chicago Harbor Southeast Guidewall Lighthouses. At this point, all lighthouses and photos from the trip have been added to the site. I now have to go through all entries and add descriptions and history data to each. Therefore, over the next few months, look for content to be added. November 14, 2007Added Kenosha Pierhead Lighthouse to the website. I still have more to be added from my trip this past spring. This puts an end to Wisconsin lighthouses. Next will be Illinois. November 8, 2007Added Kenosha (Southport) Lighthouse to the site. November 4, 2007Added three more Wisconsin lighthouses. The lighthouses added are Wind Point, Racine Harbor, and Racine North Breakwater Lighthouses. I still have Kenosha and Kenosha Pierhead lighthouses to add before I am done with Wisconsin. Then I will move onto adding the lighthouses in Illinois that I visited. October 23, 2007Added the two Milwaukee Lighthouses. They are the Milwaukee Breakwater and Milwaukee Pierhead lighthouses. September 27, 2007Added three more Wisconsin lighthouses to the site. They are Port Washington, Port Washington Breakwater, and Kevich lighthouses. September 13, 2007Added several more lighthouses to the site. These include: Two Rivers, Manitowoc Breakwater, and the Sheboygan Breakwater lighthouses. September 11, 2007Added Rawley Point Lighthouse into the site. I am still adding the lighthouses that I photographed during the Door County Lighthouse Walk back in May to the site. Look for more to be added in the future. August 30, 2007Several new lighthouses have been added since the last entry. They are Pilot Island, Plum Island, Cana Island, Eagle Bluff, Sherwood Point, Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal, and Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal North Pierhead Lighthouses. Look for more coming soon. August 8/9, 2007Added the Baileys Harbor Front and Rear Range Lighthouses. August 6, 2007Added Baileys Harbor Lighthouse to the website. August 2, 2007Wisconsin lighthouses continue to get added to the site. The latest additions include Algoma Pierhead, Kewaunee Pierhead, Grassy Island Front and Rear Ranges, as well as all the lighthouses around Lake Winnebago. Please continue to stop back and check up on us. More and more keep getting added. Its going fairly slowly as it is more work than I originally thought. :) July 12, 2007I have started adding Wisconsin Lighthouses to the website. I have started adding the lighthouses that are around Lake Winnebago. Look for the Lake Michigan lighthouses coming soon. June 11, 2007My wife and I attended the Door County Lighthouse Walk back during May. I have just started to get some of the pictures up on the website. We ended up getting pictures of a lot of the Wisconsin, all of Illinois, and most of the Indiana lighthouses. And on the way back through Ohio, we stopped at the Manhattan Front and Rear Range Lighthouses in Toledo, and also got some updated pictures of the Huron Harbor Lighthouse. I have started adding the Indiana Lighthouses to the website first. There are only two listed so far, but look for more later this week. March 19, 2007Regarding the posting of comments on pictures...It is still enabled. But instead of them being posted immediately, I must now approve them due to spammers. People felt the need to post gibberish for either medicine, or porn....so those comments get deleted before being posted. All legitimate comments are approved and show up within a day. March 19, 2007I have been cataloging all of my photos, and have found several that have not made it onto the site. So I have been adding those to the site as I go. Please check the "Whats New?" page to see what pictures have been added. Another thing I have been doing during the cataloging is rescanning some pictures. Most of the early pictures that I had scanned for the site were too compressed, and therefore lost a lot of clarity. So I am rescanning them. February 5, 2007There are several lighthouses that I had bundled under the Dunkirk Lighthouse. Some of the exhibits they have at the maritime museum on the grounds are original lighthouses from the Buffalo area. So I felt a need to break them out as their own pages. They are: the Grand Island Rear Range Lighthouse and the South Buffalo North Side Lighthouse. Another lighthouse that I had included in the Dunkirk Lighthouse page was the Dunkirk Pierhead Light. I have also added several new pictures under the Dunkirk, Fort Niagara, and Thirty Mile Point Lighthouses. January 16, 2007Added several new pictures of the Charlotte-Genesee lighthouse. I have also added a link to the top rated pictures on the site. Click the Top Ten Pictures link on the upper left-hand corner under Site Navigation. January 8, 2007I have added some new functionality to the site. I have set up a system where people can post comments on the pictures on the website. This functionality is in the archive picture viewing area under each lighthouse. To get to this area, you first have to view a lighthouse, and then click on the "View more pictures..." button at the bottom of the page. This will then take you to the archive pictures section. Then just click on any of the photos to get to the viewer where you can leave comments and vote on the pictures. I just want to set some ground rules for posting comments on the pictures. Please refrain from posting profanity or HTML links in the comments. To make certain that this rule is adhered to, all comments are emailed to me as well as posted to the site. If the comment is found to be offensive or have profanity in it, it will be removed. Also, very little HTML is allowed in the posts. The only tags that are allowed are BOLD and ITALICS. All other HTML code will be stripped out before being posted. I really hope that people will follow these few simple rules. To help ensure this, I will also log all poster's IP addresses. If I find that one particular IP address is causing problems, I will take actions to block it. If I find that people are continually causing problems, then I will either remove the system, or set it up so that only registered users will be allowed to post comments. I hope that it won't come down to that. I have also added a new link on the main page of the site. This will show all lighthouses sorted by tower height. Just click on the Listing By Tower Height link on the upper left hand side of the main page. December 23, 2006Directions to all lighthouses as well as GPS coordinates are done. The only ones that I could not find were for the two lighthouses in Germany, as well as the one in French Guiana. I am now working on adding more history and detail to the descriptions of the lighthouses. So please bear with me as I attempt to update the almost 300 lighthouses. December 12, 2006I have finished adding GPS coordinates and directions for a bunch more states. Recently added are California, Maryland, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. December 4, 2006I have began adding GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for each lighthouse as well as directions to them. For the directions, I try to start out from the closest city near the lighthouse and then provide the directions to the light, or the best viewing area(s) for the lighthouse. As for the GPS coordinates, these are not the exact spot on the earth of the light. Since I decided to only 3 decimal points, the coordinates are approximations. In other words, if you were standing at these points, you should be able to see the tower. So far, I have finished the following states: Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia. November 11, 2006Added several new Florida lighthouses to the site. Please check out the Amelia Island and Cape Canaveral lighthouses now on the site. November 8, 2006Added several new pictures for Roanoke River, St. John's River, and Montauk Point Lighthouses. November 1, 2006I have teamed up with AllPosters.com to create an affiliate store with them. Please check it out here - Lighthouse Photos / posters for sale. I have also updated the books section to feature new titles. Please check that out here - Lighthouse books. August 27, 2006I finally wrote our my travels to Oregon / Washington back in October of 2005, and our trip to Florida in May of 2006. You can read about them here. June 13, 2006I finished scanning and uploading the rest of the pictures from my Florida trip. There are now 81 pictures in the Ponce Inlet picture archive. I have also added three new lighthouses to the site. They are Jupiter Inlet, Boca Grande Rear Range Light, and Port Boca Grande Lighthouse. Look for the trip report coming soon. June 7, 2006Florida trip update: I added many new pictures of the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse. Please check them out. May 31, 2006Florida trip update: I added many new pictures of St. Augustine Lighthouse. Please check them out. May 21, 2006I was recently in Florida, and had a chance to photograph Sanibel Island. With this, I added over 50 new pictures of Sanibel Island Lighthouse. Please check them out. April 26, 2006Please help support us-lighthouses.com Do you like this website? Do you find it useful? If so, how would you like to help support it? For years, I have ran this site as a hobby and lighthouse enthusiast. I have provided information, photos, and answered hundreds of questions. I have done all of this on my own time and money. What I would like to do is offset some of my operating costs by selling reprints of the many lighthouse photos that I have taken over the years. I would offer many popular sizes, and sell them at a reasonable price. What I would like to do is guage the interest from you, the site visitors. If this seems like something you would be interested in, please let me know by emailing webmaster @ us-lighthouses.com. I am hoping to make a decision soon, but would like to know the interest level. Thanks. March 18, 2006Since I have been adding a ton of new pictures and lighthouses to the website within the last few weeks, I created a new page that will quickly summarize what I have done. It is called the "Latest Lighthouses and Photo Additions Page". This page will show all of the lighthouses and photos that have been added within the last 30 days. If you like / hate / have ideas for improvements, please let me know. March 7, 2006New Lighthouse Event Added: THE MAINE INGREDIENTS: LOBSTERS, LIGHTHOUSES & LUXURY. Get more information on this event on the events page. February 20, 2006There are now 2570 lighthouse photos in the database. Added the Swiftsure Lightship to the website. It is the last one to be added from my trip to Oregon and Washington in early October of 2005. I also got the time to add the rest of the pictures of the California lighthouses that I have. So, I have added extra pictures of Alcatraz Island, Santa Cruz, East Brother Island, and Point Montara Lighthouses. I also learned the names of the lighthouses on Angel Island. So I changed my general title of Angel Island Lighthouses to their correct names. So they are listed as Point Stuart and Point Blunt. I also started adding some lighthouse pictures from South Carolina. Again, these are pictures that I had from some time ago, but never got to add to the site. They are Morris Island, Sullivans Island, Harbour Town, Governor's Point, and Hunting Island Lighthouses. February 6, 2006Added two more lighthouses to the website. They are the Browns Point and Alki Point Lighthouses. Make sure you follow the links and check out the history and the extra pictures of the lighthouses. January 29, 2006I added a Frequently Asked Questions page to the website. I provide answers to the most commonly asked questions that I have received over the years. If you have a question that you think should be added, please send it to me. webmaster@us-lighthouses.com Also added to the website were several new pictures of the Grays Harbor Lighthouse in Washington state. January 25, 2006Towards the end of September of 2005, I had to head to Hillsboro, OR again for work. This time I scheduled a few extra days of vacation and had my wife fly out to meet me. We took some time and went up to Seattle as well as went down the Oregon coast. I haven't had a chance to write this up yet, but did start adding some new photos that I took from the trip. I have added new Cape Meares and some new Tillamook Rock photos. I took along my 1000mm telephoto lens, so the photos of Tillamook show some close up detail. May 27, 2005A trip for work took me out to Hillsboro, OR, where I got to get out to the Oregon / Washington coast. I got to photograph Cape Disappointment, North Head Light, the Columbia Lightship and got to take a few new photos of Tillamook Rock. December 22, 2004I added two new lighthouses to the site. Old Point Loma and New Point Loma. I have also added several more pictures of Diamond Head Lighthouse, Presque Isle Lighthouse in Pennsylvania, Erie Land Light, and the Erie Pierhead Lighthouse. December 21, 2004Lighthouse Ranking has been enabled. In an effort to make the website more interactive, I have set it up so that you can rate the lighthouses as well as pictures. So when you visit a lighthouse page, you will see numbers below the lighthouse. These are for the lighthouse, and NOT that picture of the light. So feel free to rank the lights as well. Vote for your favorite light! I have created a TOP TEN Lighthouses page that lists the current standings of the lighthouses. So stop by and take a peek, if you don't agree, get out there and vote. November 15, 2004Picture Rating is back! I have recreated the picture rating application, and it is now online. So as you browse through the picture archives, please feel free to rate the pictures. To get to the picture archives, simply visit any lighthouse page, and click on the "View More Pictures of this Lighthouse" button at the bottom of the page. In fact, you can start rating by clicking on the Cape Hatteras pictures link below. *On December 1, 2004, I will create a page that lists the Top 20 Lighthouse Pictures on the site. So get out there and start rating the pictures. Cape Hatteras Pictures uploaded to the site I have finally scanned in all of my picture of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. There are over 70 pictures of this lighthouse which include before the move, DURING THE MOVE (back from 1999), and a few from after the move was complete. See the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse pictures. I have also added many new pictures of the Ocracoke Island Lighthouse. See them here. October 12, 2004Added a bunch of new pictures for the following lighthouses: Roanoke River, Bald Head Island, Cape Lookout, and Pigeon Point Lighthouses. October 6, 2004Added six new lighthouses. Bloody Point Bar, Cove Point, Drum Point, Three Sisters Island, Toronto Harbor, and Gibraltar Point lighthouses. Also added a bunch of new pictures for the following lighthouses: Point Reyes, Point Bonita, and Lime Point. August 5, 2004Added a bunch of new content. Some of this was on the website before the server crash, and some of it is a new content. I have finally re-focused and will hopefully be adding stuff (at least) weekly. Added four new lighthouses. Grays Harbor, Rock of Ages, Split Rock, and Piney Point. Also added a bunch of new pictures for the following lighthouses: Tawas Point, Yaquina Head, Point Montara, St. Augustine, and Selkirk. July 18, 2004Added Biloxi lighthouse into the website. This includes 25 pictures donated by Cheryl Hill. January 28, 2004My web-hosting company allowed the system to become infected with a vulnerability. This resulted in the company taking down the system to rebuild it, only to find out that their back ups didn't work. The entire site was lost. I was able to recover the site to January of 2003. This resulted in a ton of lost data. May 23, 2003I was down in Erie, PA not too long ago and got some newer pictures of the different Erie Lighthouses. This was the first time I used my digital camera to take pictures. Anyways, some of the lights that have newer pictures are: Erie Land Lighthouse, Erie Pierhead, Presque Isle, and Erie Waterworks tower. January 19, 2003Added a bunch of pictures from Dennis Kent of Upper Peninsula lighthouses, including two bed and breakfasts. Check out the Sand Hills and Big Bay bed and breakfasts. Also a new addition is the Eagle Harbor, Mendota, and Crisp Point Lighthouses. October 20, 2002I added many pictures that people have sent in over the last year. Please check out the Grand Island East Channel Light in Michigan and several shots of Southeast Block Island in Rhode Island. Also added were new pictures of Yerba Buena in California and a great new shot of Portland Head Light in Maine. Also, several new Massachusetts lights have been added. They are Stage Harbor and Plum Island. May 11, 2002I added a picture of the Molokai Lighthouse in Hawaii. Kim Halstead was nice enough to send it in. Also, Kim recently visited Sydney, Australia and sent a bunch of pictures from Sydney Harbor. Please check them out! April 21, 2002Port Colborne Inner and Outer Lighthouses have been added as of April 21, 2002. Please check them out and vote. Bonnie Harrington has sent some more pictures of the Oregon Lighthouses. I have added the Heceta Head pictures that she sent. I have also added a few more pictures of the Port Burwell Lighthouse that I took last summer that I just recently got developed. December 9, 2001Finally fished the write up of our Michigan Trip. Wow, that took awhile. Also added a write up of our Long Point Lighthouse Cruise. This was a cruise that was sponsored by the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keeper's Association. November 18, 2001Added Lighthouse and Picture Voting to the website. At the bottom of each individual lighthouse or picture, there will be a numbered scale of 1 to 10. Click on one of these numbers to register your vote. For more instructions, read the instructions page. October 4, 2001Added the rest of Bonnie Harrington's Oregon Lighthouse pictures. Please check them out at this page. September 19, 2001Added the final Canadian lighthouse, Long Point Lighthouse. We did the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keeper's Association cruise to Long Point back in August. September 16, 2001Added two more Canadian lighthouses. Long Point Cut and Port Burwell lighthouses. Bonnie Harrington has sent a bunch more pictures of Oregon Lighthouses. I will get those up as soon as possible for everyone to enjoy. September 15, 2001Added a bunch more pictures to the lighthouse archives. The website now contains over 1640 unique lighthouse pictures! Some of the recent ones I have added are for the Prescott Breakwater, Prescott Visitor's Center, and Windmill Point Lighthouses in Ontario. Other lighthouses added to the website include Port Dover Lighthouse in Ontario and the East Charity Shoal lighthouse in Lake Ontario. September 9, 2001Added more pictures for the Grand Traverse Lighthouse and Battery Point Lighthouse. I also added the White River Lightstation in Michigan to the site. September 4, 2001Added the Sturgeon Point and Tawas Point Lighthouses to the Michigan section. Two more to go! September 3, 2001Added more Michigan lights. This batch includes New Presque Isle, Port Sanilac, Round Island, Round Island Passage, South Haven, St. Joseph North Pierhead, and the St. Joseph Lighthouse Depot. There is finally only four more left to add! August 31, 2001Added the several lights from the Presque Isle area. These include the Old Front and Rear Range Lights, and the Old Presque Isle Lighthouse. Also added were Poe Reef, Saginaw River Rear Range, and Peche Island Lighthouses. This brings the Michigan page up to 41 lights! August 26, 2001Added more of the Michigan lights. These lights include Manistee North Pierhead, Muskegon South Pierhead, Huron Lightship, and the Ludington North Pierhead lights. August 12, 2001Added more pictures of Old Mission lighthouse. Also added were Little Sable Point, Little Traverse, and Old Mackinac Point. August 8, 2001Added several more lighthouses from Michigan today. I added the Robert H. Manning Memorial Lighthouse and the Fort Gratiot Lighthouse. I also added several pictures of the Holland Harbor Light to the archive section. I STILL have a bunch more Michigan lights to add! I will also be joining the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association's Long Point Cruise this weekend on Lake Erie. The cruise passes by the Long Point Lighthouse and then visits Port Burwell Light. For more information visit www.gllka.com August 4, 2001Added another two Michigan lighthouses today - Gravelly Shoal Lighthouse and Harbor Beach Lighthouse. July 21, 2001Added a few more new Michigan lighthouses. There are still many more to add! (At last count, about 30) This batch includes Whitefish Point, Grand Haven, Frankfort North Breakwater, Cheboygan River Front Range, Fourteen Foot Shoal, and Forty Mile Point. To see these lighthouses, visit the Michigan Lighthouses page. Look for many more to come. July 15, 2001Added in several new Michigan lighthouses including Point Betsie, Big Sable Point, Point Aux Barques, and Point Austin Reef. To see these lighthouses, visit the Michigan Lighthouses page. Look for many more to come. May 15, 2001We just got back from our 1900 mile tour of mostly lower Michigan with a quick jaunt north to Whitefish Point Lighthouse. Once again, GPS becomes a huge saving grace. GPS guided us quickly and efficiently to the lighthouses. Stay tuned for the write up and lights coming soon. March 11, 2001We just got back from our trip to Toronto, Ontario. This was just kind of a "get out of town for the weekend" type trip. We did manage to see some lighthouses though. We visited the Burlington Main and Canal Lights, Oakville, and Queen's Wharf Lighthouses. October 29, 2000Added Fenwick Island Lighthouse and several new Hawaiian Lighthouses that Kim Halstead had contributed. September 18, 2000Added several lighthouses that were contributed. Dennis Kent contributed the Grand Traverse Lighthouse, South Manitou Island, and North Manitou Shoal in Michigan, and Kim Halstead had contributed two lighthouses of Hawaii. Barbers Point and Diamond Head. She has actually contributed many more, however, I have yet to get them up yet. September 9, 2000I finally finished the writeup of my recent trip photographing the lighthouses of the 1000 Islands. This will allow you to retrace my steps to visit the same lighthouses and hopefully take some of the guesswork out of finding them. August 29, 2000I have finally finished adding all the lighthouses from my 1000 Islands trip back at the beginning of August. I covered 6 lighthouses in New York and 10 in Ontario, Canada. Currently, they can be viewed under the Lighthouses of Ontario and Lighthouses of New York Page. July 30, 2000I have a lot of news to announce today: First off, I finished adding the rest of Dennis Kent's Michigan lighthouse photos. These include the Peninsula Point Lighthouse, Manistique East Breakwater, and the Sand Point Lighthouse in Escanaba, Michigan. Secondly, Patty Gise, a regular contributor to this website has submitted a bunch more Maine lighthouses to be featured on this page. The contributed pictures include: Owl's Head, Curtis Island, Indian Island, Tenant's Harbor, Two Bush Light, Rockland Breakwater, Whitehead Light, and Brant Point in Massachusetts. These will be added as I get time. This will bring the Maine Lighthouse section up to 12 lighthouses. Lastly, I am starting a mailing list for this website. The mailing list will send out messages from myself to let regular visitors know when lights have been added, or pages have been updated. Please e-mail the webmaster if you would like to be included on this list. Please put the words "SUBSCRIBE" in the subject line of the e-mail. July 29, 2000Dennis Kent had contributed the first Hawaiian lighthouse to be featured on the www.us-lighthouses.com website. The lighthouse is the Kilauea Point Lighthouse located on Kauai Island of Hawaii. Also added was the Seul Choix Point Lighthouse in Michigan. Dennis has also contributed the Sand Point Lighthouse, Manistique light, and the Peninsula Point Lighthouse. I also have a bunch more Maine Lighthouses to add to the site that were contributed by Patty Gise. July 27, 2000The archive page is finally available. The section already has about 470+ pictures and is still growing. The section will feature my whole lighthouse photograph collection. I still have a whole bunch of pictures that have yet to be scanned in. This section also features pictures that people have submitted that there is already a main page for. July 14, 2000I have added the first Michigan lighthouse to be featured on the www.us-lighthouses.com website. It is the Point Iroquois Lightstation and was submitted by Dennis Kent. June 11, 2000I finally finished the trip report / write up from the Florida Keys vacation back in May. Sorry for the delay. June 10, 2000Katja Thomas has contributed a bunch more pictures. The St. Johns River Light has already been added, look for more to come. May 29, 2000The lighthouses of the Florida Keys are now completely added. Still to come is my personal accounts of the trip. The final addition includes Sand Key Lighthouse, Logger Key Lighthouse, and the Rebecca Shoals Light. I also covered two that were not in the Florida Keys. They are the Cape Florida Lighthouse off the coast of Miami on Key Biscayne and the Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse north of Miami in Pompano Beach. May 27, 2000Sorry that the Florida Key's lighthouses are being put up so slowly, but I have been very busy. I have finished two more, though. They are Key West Lighthouse and the Garden Key Lighthouse on Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas. Katja Thomas has also sent several more Florida lighthouse pictures that will be added in the near future. May 21, 2000I Finally finished the Carysfort Reef Lighthouse and the American Shoal Lighthouse. They are now up for viewing strictly through this page. They haven't been added to the database yet. May 14, 2000I was in the Florida Keys from April 27 - May 2. While there I photographed the numerous lighthouses that mark the reefs. All lighthouse pictures have been scanned and I am currently working on adding the text for each. I have since finished two lighthouses, they are Alligator Reef and Sombrero Key. The rest of the lighthouses and trip write up will be coming shortly...hopefully. April 18, 2000I finally finished the whole write up on the Lake Erie / Ohio trip...Read about it here. From the last update on the 11th, I have added Cleveland East Entrance Light, Huron Harbor Pierhead, Port Clinton Pier, and the Sandusky Harbor Pierhead Light. April 11, 2000I am still working on adding the Ohio Lighthouses that I took on March 31. However, the ones that are up right now are Ashtabula, Lorain East and West, Cleveland East and West, Old Fairport Harbor Main, Fairport Harbor West, Vermilion, and Conneaut West Breakwater. April 4, 2000The lighthouse sitting on the grounds of the University of Connecticut has been identified as the Avery Point Lighthouse. It is listed in all the regular lighthouse section now. The Lighthouse Mysteries section is now vacant. If you have any unidentified lighthouse pictures, please send then to me. April 2, 2000Added a new section called Lighthouse Mysteries to get help in identifying a certain lighthouse that sits on the grounds of the University of Connecticut. Also added a new Canadian lighthouse called Windmill Point submitted by Jim Moeller. March 31, 2000I just got back from from visiting several Ohio lighthouses. I covered from the Pennsylvania - Ohio border all the way over to Port Clinton, Ohio. I covered about 16 lighthouses and do have one of the new lighthouses up already - South Bass Island. March 22, 2000Added three new lighthouses - New London Ledge Light, New London Harbor Light, and the Westerherver Lighthouse in Germany. March 20, 2000Added two new lighthouses - Sanibel Island Lighthouse and Nauset Beach Lighthouse. February 15, 2000A newly designed www.us-lighthouses.com is unveiled. September 19, 1999After a few minor computer problems, which included reformatting my hard drive, I am back with some updates. I finished adding some more of the California lighthouses that were sent to me by Micahel Jackman. I have also added two very nice Ohio lighthouses sent to me by Phyllis Ralston. September 2, 1999I finally got around to putting up all the photographs that have been submitted over the last month. Pages that have been added: July 18, 1999Finally added a better picture of the Price's Creek Lighthouse and a better picture of the Currituck Beach Lighthouse. Don't forget to see the new mobile lighthouse. That's right, I have added pictures of the Cape Hatteras move. July 7, 1999Added directions to the Roanoke River Lighthouse. July 6, 1999Great news! I was in Buffalo over the Independence day weekend and managed to visit the two lighthouses I missed last year. You may recall that they were the Oswego West Pierhead and the Braddock Point Lighthouse. Also while in the Rochester, NY area, I managed to photograph the Rochester Pierhead Light which I was not aware of last year. And there is also an addition to the page. I had some extra time, so I spent some time across the border and discovered some of the neighboring lighthouses. Read about the trip here. June 13, 1999Added new pages of two California lighthouses...Point Sur and Point Pinos. These were contributed to Michael Jackman. May 17, 1999New North Carolina lighthouse visited! Acting upon directions e-mailed to me from Chris Burnett, I visited the last remaining screw-pile lighthouse in the state...The Roanoke River Light. Also added the lighthouse at Lighthouse Village in North Myrtle Beach. It is just a fixture in their community, but nonetheless a lighthouse. May 7, 1999Added information and pictures of Hooper Straight Lighthouse. February 25, 1999Finished getting the San Francisco pictures up. I had to make two sections since I covered so many. They are broken into the two different days that I covered the lighthouses, click the day below to find out more: |
