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VI, Pacific Coast and Pacific Islands; VII, Great Lakes; Each volume of the Light List contains aids to navigation in geographic order from north to south along the Atlantic coast, from east to west along the Gulf coast, and from south to north along the Pacific coast. It lists seacoast aids first, followed by entrance and harbor aids listed ...
Boston Light, the oldest light station and second oldest lighthouse structure in the US Charleston Light, the last manned lighthouse built on shore in the United States. This is a list of lighthouses in the United States. The United States has had approximately a thousand lights as well as light towers, range lights, and pier head lights.
This is a list of all lighthouses in the U.S. state of Rhode Island as identified by the United States Coast Guard.There are fifteen active lights in the state as well as two skeleton towers erected to replace earlier staffed lighthouses.
The Portland Head Light, first lit in 1791, is the oldest light in the state and was the first US lighthouse completed after independence from Britain. [2] [3] The last lighthouse in the state, the second Whitlocks Mill Light, was first lit in 1910; it is also the most northerly light in the state and therefore on the US Atlantic Coast. [4]
Up until 1970 the light was still using its First Order Fresnel lens. In 1970 it was replaced by an Aerobeacon. The light is used and maintained by the U.S Coast Guard as an Aid to Navigation, protecting Mariners from the icy depths of the Graveyard of the Atlantic. The active light can be seen from anywhere on Hatteras Island.
The tallest extant tower is the Craighill Channel Lower Range Rear Light. If not otherwise noted, focal height and coordinates are taken from the United States Coast Guard Light List, [1] while location and dates of activation, automation, and deactivation are taken from the United States Coast Guard Historical information site for lighthouses. [2]
This is a list of all lighthouses in the U.S. state of Delaware as identified by the United States Coast Guard.The first lighthouse in the state was erected in 1769 [1] and the last in 1925 (ignoring automated towers erected later); the oldest active light is the Fenwick Island Light.
This is a list of all lighthouses in the U.S. state of Georgia as identified by the United States Coast Guard.There are three active lights in the state including one maintained as a private aid; four are standing but inactive, and one has been replaced by an automated skeleton tower, and one destroyed by a ship collision.