Updated 12/30/97

The US Lighthouse Service can trace it's beginnings to August 7, 1789 when President George Washington approved an act of Congerss which incorporated all esisting and future aids to navigation into a federal system. It was not until 1939 that the US Light Service was merged with the US Coast Guard. Lighthouses in the United States have come and gone over the past 300 years. A wide variety of styles and construction materials have been used. Today, the vast majority of operational lighthouses are no longer manned by "keepers" as they have been automated. Many of those shown below have long since passed into history.

Atlantic Coast

Assateague Light Assateague Island, VA	Cape Charles Light Smith Island,VA	Cape Henry Light Virginia Beach, VA	Bodie Island Light Bodie Island, N.C.
Cape Hatteras Light Cape Hatteras, N.C.	Currituck Light Corolla, N.C.	Ocracoke Island Light Ocracoke, N.C.	Fire Island Light Fire Island, N.Y.
Montauk Point Light Montauk, N.Y.	Absecon Light Atlantic City, N.J.	Cape Lookout Light Beaufort,N.C.	Sandy Hook Light Sandy Hook, N.J.

New London Light New London, CT	Thomas Point Light Annapolis, MD	Middle Ground Lighthouse Chesapeake Bay, VA
Cape May Lighthouse Cape May, NJ	Thimble Shoal Lighthouse Chesapeake Bay, VA	Tybee Island Lighthouse Savannah, GA
Charleston Light Charleston, SC	Drum Point Light Solomons, MD	Cherrystone Bar Light Cape Charles, Va

	Plantation Light Cape Charles, Va

	Destruction Island Light