The Lake County Historical Society has removed the beacon of the iconic Two Harbors Light Station, located between Burlington and Agate bays. The beacon went dark Nov. 25 due to a failure that ...

In February, the iconic Mark Abbott Memorial Lighthouse went dark. Now that a new, long-lasting beacon has safely arrived in ...

Constructed in 1869 with classic cream city brick, the Cana Island Lighthouse was, for a time, the tallest building in Door ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Two iconic lighthouses serve as beacons of history along the Charleston, South Carolina coast. Congress passed an act which protects all lighthouses, beacons, and buoys on ...

Lighthouses have been the beacon of light for more than 100 years that symbolized safety and security for ships and boats at sea. On Aug. 9, 1789, Congress approved an Act for the establishment and ...

DULUTH — It won’t just be fireworks lighting up the night sky in Two Harbors this Fourth of July. For the first time in six years, the iconic light from the North Shore city’s lighthouse beacon 25 ...

The Point Reyes peninsula, the windiest location on the Pacific Coast and the second-foggiest place on the North American continent, has been the scene of hundreds of shipwrecks dating from the ...

In the early 1830s, heeding the requests of mariners both ancient and otherwise, Congress approved the building of a lighthouse on Assateague Island. There is still a lighthouse there, and it’s a ...

From atop a jagged ocean cliff, I watched as the sunset softened into an afterglow. Dozens of pelicans glided over the water. Salt spray rose from surly waves. Above, a 30-foot lighthouse began ...