States With Historical Lighthouse Photos

Enjoy our free resource of historical lighthouse photos.
This resource allows you to view an extensive archive of historical and contemporary photos of U.S. light stations that have been collected by the U.S. Lighthouse Society over the years. This section also includes many rare photos of light stations that no longer exist.
Alabama
Battery Gladden Grant's Pass Mobile Middle Bay Mobile Point Sand Island
Choctaw Point        
Alaska
Cape Decision Cape St. Elias Five Finger Islands Mary Island Scotch Cap
Cape Hinchinbrook Eldred Rock Guard Island Point Retreat Sentinel Island
Cape Sarichef Fairway Island Lincoln Rock Point Sherman Tree Point
Cape Spencer        
California
Alcatraz Island Fort Point Pigeon Point Point Hueneme Punta Gorda
Anacapa Island Humboldt Harbor Point Arena Point Loma (New) Roe Island
Angel Island Lime Point Point Arguello Point Loma (Old) San Luis Obispo
Año Nuevo Island Long Beach Point Blunt Point Montara Santa Barbara
Ballast Point Los Angeles Harbor Point Bonita Point Piños Southampton Shoals
Battery Point Mare Island Point Cabrillo Point Reyes St. George Reef
Cape Mendocino Mile Rocks Point Conception Point Stuart Table Bluff
Carquinez Strait Oakland Harbor Point Diablo Point Sur Trinidad Head
East Brother Island Piedras Blancas Point Fermin Point Vicente Yerba Buena Island
Farallon Island        
Connecticut
Avery Point Five Mile Point New Haven Long Wharf Penfield Reef Stonington Harbor
Black Rock Harbor Great Captain Island New Haven Outer Breakwater Saybrook Breakwater Stonington Harbor Breakwater
Bridgeport Harbor Greens Ledge New London Harbor Sheffield Island Stratford Point
Chester Rock Lynde Point New London Ledge Southwest Ledge Stratford Shoal
Essex Reef Morgan Point Peck Ledge Stamford Harbor Tongue Point
Faulkner's Island        
Delaware
Baker Range Front Cherry Island Range Front Delaware Breakwater West End Mahon River Old Reedy Island Range Rear
Baker Range Rear Cherry Island Range Rear Fenwick Island Marcus Hook Range Front Port Penn Range Front
Bellevue Range Front Christiana Fourteen Foot Bank Marcus Hook Range Rear Port Penn Range Rear
Bellevue Range Rear Christiana Beacon Harbor of Refuge Mispillion Reedy Island
Bombay Hook Delaware Breakwater East End Liston Range Front New Castle Range Front Reedy Island Range Front
Cape Henlopen Delaware Breakwater Range Rear Liston Range Rear New Castle Range Rear Reedy Island Range Rear
Cape Henlopen Beacon        
Florida
Alligator Reef Cape Florida Dry Tortugas Northwest Passage Sombrero Key
Amelia Island Cape San Blas Egmont Key Pacific Reef St. Augustine
Amelia Island Beacon Cape St. George Fort Barrancas Range Front Pensacola St. John's River
Amelia Island North Range Front Carysfort Reef Fort Barrancas Range Rear Pensacola Bar Beacon St. Johns
Amelia Island North Range Rear Cedar Keys Fowey Rocks Ponce de Leon Inlet St. Joseph Bay
American Shoal Charlotte Harbor Hen and Chickens Shoal Pulaski Shoal St. Joseph Point
Anclote Key Cosgrove Shoal Hillsboro Inlet Rebecca Shoal St. Marks
Boca Grande Crooked River Jupiter Inlet Sand Key Tennessee Reef
Boca Grande Entrance Range Rear Dames Point Key West Sanibel Island Tortugas Harbor
Cape Canaveral Dog Island Molasses Reef Smith Shoal Volusia Bar
Georgia
Cockspur Island Oyster Beds Beacon Savannah Tybee Beacon Tybee Knoll Cut Range Rear
Fig Island Sapelo Island St. Simons Island Tybee Island Wolf Island
Fig Island Range Rear Sapelo Island Range Front The Bay Tybee Knoll Cut Range Front Wolf Island Range Front
Little Cumberland Island        
Hawaii
Ahukini Breakwater Ka'ena Point Passing Kuki'i Point Makahu'ena Point Nawiliwili Harbor
Aloha Tower Ka'uiki Head Kukuihaele Makapuu Point Pa'uwela Point
Barbers Point Kailua Point La'au Point McGregor Point Palaoa Point
Cape Kumukahi Kauhola Lahaina Moloka'i Pauka'a Point
Diamond Head Kawaihae Laupahoehoe Point Nakalele Point Pepeekeo Point
Hanamanioa Point Keahole Point Mahukona Napo'opo'o Pyramid Rock
Honolulu Harbor Kilauea Point      
Illinois
Chicago Harbor Chicago North Pierhead Grosse Point Little Fort Waukegan Harbor
Chicago Harbor Southeast Guidewall        
Indiana
Buffington Breakwater Calumet Harbor Breakwater South End Indiana Harbor East Breakwater Michigan City Michigan City East Pierhead
Calumet Harbor Gary Breakwater Lake Maxinkuckee Michigan City Breakwater Old Indiana Harbor
Louisiana
Amite River East Rigolets Pass Manchac Sabine Pass East Jetty Southwest Pass Entrance
Barataria Bay Frank's Island Point Aux Herbes Shell Keys Southwest Reef
Bayou Bonfouca Head of Passes Point Defer Ship Shoal Tchefuncte River Range Rear
Bayou St. John Lake Borgne Point au Fer Reef South Pass Timbalier Bay
Calcasieu River New Canal Port Pontchartrain South Pass East Jetty Vermilion Bay
Chandeleur Island Oyster Bayou Proctorsville South Pass West Jetty West Rigolets
Cubits Gap Pass A L'Outre Sabine Pass Southwest Pass  
Maine
Avery Rock Deer Island Thorofare Heron Neck Nash Island Seavey's Island Range Front
Baker Island Dice Island Indian Island Owls Head Seavey's Island Range Rear
Bass Harbor Head Doubling Point Isle au Haut Pemaquid Point Seguin Island
Bear Island Doubling Point Range Front Kennebunk Pier Perkins Island Spring Point Ledge
Blue Hill Bay Doubling Point Range Rear Libby Island Petit Manan Squirrel Point
Boon Island Eagle Island Little Mark Island Monument Pond Island St. Croix River
Browns Head Egg Rock Little River Portland Breakwater Steels Ledge Monument
Burnt Coat Harbor Fort Point Lubec Channel Portland Head Tenants Harbor
Burnt Coat Harbor Range Front Fort Popham Machias Seal Island Prospect Harbor Two Bush Island
Burnt Island Franklin Island Marshall Point Pumpkin Island West Quoddy Head
Cape Elizabeth (East Tower) Goat Island Matinicus Rock (North Tower) Ram Island Whaleback Ledge
Cape Elizabeth (West Tower) Goose Rocks Matinicus Rock (South Tower) Ram Island Ledge Whitehead
Cape Neddick Great Duck Island Monhegan Island Rockland Breakwater Whitlock's Mill
Crabtree Ledge Grindle Point Moose Peak Rockland Harbor Southwest Winter Harbor
Cuckolds Halfway Rock Mount Desert Rock Saddleback Ledge Wood Island
Curtis Island Hendricks Head Narraguagus    
Maryland
Baltimore Craighill Channel Lower Range Rear Greenbury Point Shoal Maryland Point Sandy Point Shoal
Blakistone Island Craighill Channel Upper Range Front Hawkins Point Mathias Point Shoal Seven Foot Knoll
Bloody Point Bar Craighill Channel Upper Range Rear Holland Island Bar North Point Lower Sharkfin Shoal
Bodkin Island Drum Point Hooper Island North Point Upper Sharps Island
Cedar Point Fishing Battery Hooper Strait Piney Point Solomons Lump
Choptank River Fog Point Janes Island Point Lookout Somers Cove
Clay Island Fort Carroll Lazaretto Point Point No Point Thomas Point
Cobb Point Bar Fort Washington Leading Point Poole's Island Thomas Point Shoal
Concord Point Great Shoals Love Point Ragged Point Turkey Point
Cove Point Greenbury Point Lower Cedar Point Sandy Point Upper Cedar Point
Craighill Channel Lower Range Front        
Massachusetts
Annisquam Harbor Chatham (North) Gloucester Breakwater Monomoy Point Sandy Neck
Baker's Island (Northwestern) Chatham (South) Graves Nantucket Beacon Sankaty Head
Baker's Island (Southeastern) Clark's Point Great Point Narrows Scituate
Bass River Cleveland East Ledge Highland Nauset Spectacle Island Range Front
Billingsgate Cliff Range Front Beacon Hospital Point Ned's Point Spectacle Island Range Rear
Bird Island Cliff Range Rear Beacon Hospital Point Range Rear Newburyport Harbor Stage Harbor
Bishop and Clerks Cuttyhunk Island Hyannis Harbor Newburyport Harbor Range Front Straitsmouth Island
Borden Flats Deer Island Ipswich Range Front Newburyport Harbor Range Rear Tarpaulin Cove
Boston Derby Wharf Ipswich Range Rear Nobska Point Ten Pound Island
Brant Point Dumpling Rock Long Island Head Palmer Island Thacher Island
Brant Point (Old) Duxbury Pier Long Point Plymouth (Northwest) Three Sisters of Nauset (Center)
Broad Sound Channel Range Front East Chop Lovell's Island Range Front Plymouth (Southeast) Three Sisters of Nauset (North)
Broad Sound Channel Range Rear Eastern Point Lovell's Island Range Rear Point Gammon Three Sisters of Nauset (South)
Butler Flats Edgartown Harbor Marblehead Race Point West Chop
Buzzards Bay Entrance Egg Rock Mayo Beach Salisbury Beach Range Front Wing's Neck
Cape Ann Fort Pickering Minot's Ledge Salisbury Beach Range Rear Wood End
Cape Poge Gay Head      
Michigan
Alpena Fourteen Foot Shoal Keweenaw Waterway Upper Entrance Passage Island Sand Point (Escanaba)
Au Sable North Pierhead Fourteen Mile Point Lake St. Clair Peche Island Seul Choix Point
Au Sable Point Frankfort North Breakwater Lansing Shoal Peche Island Range Front Six Mile Point Range Rear
Bay Furnace Frankfort South Pier Little Rapids Cut Range Rear Peche Island Range Rear South Fox Island (New)
Bayfield Rock Range Front Frying Pan Island Little Sable Point Peninsula Point South Fox Island (Old)
Beaver Harbor Gibraltar Little Traverse Petoskey Pierhead South Haven South Pierhead
Beaver Island Grand Haven Inner Lower Nicolet West Range Front Pipe Island South Manitou Island
Belle Isle Grand Haven Main Ludington North Pierhead Poe Reef Spectacle Reef
Big Bay Point Grand Haven Outer Mackinac Point Point Aux Barques Squaw Island
Big Sable Point Grand Island East Channel Mamajuda Point Betsie Squaw Point
Bois Blanc Island Grand Island North Mamajuda Range Front Point Comfort St. Clair Flats Canal Lower
Cedar Point Range Rear Grand Marais Harbor of Refuge Inner Manistee North Pierhead Point Iroquois St. Clair Flats Canal Upper
Cedar River Pierhead Grand Marais Harbor of Refuge Outer Manistique East Breakwater Port Austin Reef St. Clair Flats South Channel Range Front
Charity Island Grand Traverse Manitou Port Sanilac St. Clair Flats South Channel Range Rear
Charlevoix South Pierhead Granite Island Marquette Harbor Portage Lake North Pierhead St. Helena Island
Cheboygan Crib Grassy Island North Channel Range Front Martin Reef Portage River St. Joseph
Cheboygan Main Grassy Island North Channel Range Rear McGulpin Point Poverty Island St. Joseph North Pierhead Inner
Cheboygan River Range Front Grassy Island South Channel Range Front Mendota Presque Isle St. Joseph North Pierhead Outer
Christmas Grassy Island South Channel Range Rear Menominee North Pier Presque Isle Harbor Breakwater St. Martin Island
Clinton River Gravelly Shoal Middle Island Presque Isle Harbor Range Front St. Marys River Lower Range Front
Copper Harbor Grays Reef Middle Lake George Presque Isle Harbor Range Rear Stannard Rock
Copper Harbor Range Rear Grosse Ile North Channel Range Front Minneapolis Shoal Robert H. Manning Memorial Sturgeon Point
Crisp Point Grosse Ile North Channel Range Rear Mission Point (New) Rock Harbor Tawas Point
Dark Hole East Range Rear Grosse Ile South Channel Range Front Mission Point (Old) Rock of Ages Thunder Bay Island
DeTour Point Grosse Ile South Channel Range Rear Monroe Pier Rouleau Point Range Front Vidal Shoals Channel Front
DeTour Reef Gull Rock Munising Range Front Rouleau Point Range Rear Vidal Shoals Channel Rear
Detroit River Harbor Beach Munising Range Rear Round Island Waugoshance
Eagle Harbor Harsen's Island Range Front Muskegon South Breakwater Round Island (St. Marys River) West Neebish Channel Upper Leading
Eagle Harbor Range Front Harsen's Island Range Rear Muskegon South Pierhead Round Island (Straits of Mackinac) White River
Eagle Harbor Range Rear Harwood Point East Range Front New Buffalo Round Island Passage White Shoal
Eagle River Holland Harbor North Manitou Island Saginaw Bay Whitefish Point
Ecorse Huron Island North Manitou Shoal Saginaw River Range Front William Livingstone Memorial
Ecorse Range Rear Ile Aux Galets Old Manistee River Saginaw River Range Rear Windmill Point
Escanaba Harbor Isle Royale Old Presque Isle Sand Beach North Entrance East Windmill Point Range Front
Fort Gratiot Kalamazoo River Ontonagon Sand Hills Windmill Point Range Rear
Forty Mile Point Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Ontonagon West Pierhead Sand Point (Baraga) Winter Point Range Front
Minnesota
Duluth Harbor North Breakwater Duluth Harbor South Breakwater Outer Minnesota Point Two Harbors Two Harbors East Breakwater
Duluth Harbor South Breakwater Inner Grand Marais Split Rock    
Mississippi
Biloxi East Pascagoula River Merrill's Shell Bank Pass Christian Ship Island
Cat Island Horn Island Natchez Round Island St. Joseph Island
New Hampshire
Isles of Shoals Portsmouth Harbor      
New Jersey
Absecon Conover Beacon Finns Point Range Front Miah Maull Shoal Sandy Hook West Beacon
Ambrose Tower Cross Ledge Finns Point Range Rear Navesink Twin (North Tower) Sea Girt
Barnegat Deepwater Range Front Great Beds Navesink Twin (South Tower) Ship John Shoal
Bergen Point Deepwater Range Rear Hereford Inlet Passaic Tinicum Island Range Front
Brandywine Shoal East Point Ludlum Beach Point Comfort Tinicum Island Range Rear
Cape May Egg Island Point Maurice River Range Front Sandy Hook Tucker Island
Chapel Hill Range Rear Elbow of Cross Ledge Maurice River Range Rear Sandy Hook East Beacon Waackaack Range Rear
Cohansey        
New York
Barber's Point Dunkirk Pierhead Hudson-Athens Point Aux Roches Staten Island
Barcelona East Charity Shoal Huntington Harbor Port Jefferson Harbor Breakwater Statue of Liberty
Blackwell Island Eaton's Neck Jeffrey's Hook Prince's Bay Stepping Stones
Bluff Point Elm Tree Latimer Reef Race Rock Stony Point (Hudson River)
Braddock Point Esopus Meadows Little Gull Island Robbins Reef Stony Point (Lake Ontario)
Buffalo Harbor South Entrance Execution Rocks Long Beach Bar Rochester Harbor Strawberry Island Lower Cut Range Front
Buffalo Intake Crib Fair Haven Montauk Point Rock Island Strawberry Island Lower Cut Range Rear
Buffalo Main Fair Haven Range New Dorp Rockland Lake Strawberry Island Upper Cut Range Front
Buffalo North Breakwater Fire Island North Brother Island Romer Shoal Strawberry Island Upper Cut Range Rear
Buffalo Outer Breakwater Fort Niagara North Dumpling Rondout Creek Stuyvesant
Cape Vincent Breakwater Fort Tompkins Oak Orchard Harbor Sackets Harbor Sunken Rock
Carleton Island Fort Wadsworth Ogdensburg Harbor Sands Point Sylvan Beach
Cedar Island Four Mile Point Olcott Saugerties Tarrytown
Charlotte-Genesee Frenchman's Island Old Field Point Selkirk Thirty Mile Point
Cold Spring Harbor Galloo Island Old Orchard Shoal Seneca Lake Throgs Neck
Coney Island Gardiners Point Island Orient Point Shinnecock Bay Tibbetts Point
Coxsackie Genesee East Pier Oswego Inner Sisters Island Titanic Memorial
Crossover Island Grand Island Old Range Front Oswego West Pierhead Sodus Point Van Wies Point
Crown Point Grand Island Range Rear Plattsburg Breakwater Northeast Sodus Point Pierhead West Bank
Cumberland Head Hell Gate Plattsburg Breakwater Southwest South Buffalo North Side West Point
Danskammer Point Horseshoe Reef Plum Island Split Rock Whitestone Point
Dunkirk Horton Point      
North Carolina
Bald Head Cape Fear Frying Pan Shoals Oak Island Price's Creek Range Rear
Beacon Island Cape Hatteras Gull Shoal Oak Island Front Roanoke Marshes
Bluff Shoal Cape Hatteras Beacon Harbor Island Oak Island Rear Roanoke River
Bodie Island Cape Lookout Laurel Point Ocracoke Southwest Point Royal Shoal
Bogue Banks Croatan Shoal Long Shoal Oliver Reef Upper Jetty Range Front
Bogue Banks Beacon Currituck Beach Neuse River Orton's Point Upper Jetty Range Rear
Brant Island Shoal Diamond Shoals North River Pamlico Point Wade Point
Campbell's Island Federal Point Northwest Point Royal Shoal Price's Creek  
Ohio
Ashtabula Harbor Cleveland West Breakwater Huron Harbor Maumee Bay Outer Rear Sandusky Bay Outer Range Rear
Camp Patmos Cleveland West Pier Lorain East Breakwater Northwood Sandusky Harbor Pierhead
Cedar Point Conneaut Harbor West Breakwater Lorain West Breakwater Perry Memorial Monument South Bass Island
Celina Rotary Fairport Harbor Manhattan Range Front Port Clinton Toledo Harbor
Cleveland East Breakwater Fairport Harbor East Pier Manhattan Range Rear Sandusky Bay Inner Range Front Turtle Island
Cleveland East Entrance Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Marblehead Sandusky Bay Inner Range Rear Vermilion
Cleveland Harbor Green Island Maumee Bay Outer Front Sandusky Bay Outer Range Front West Sister Island
Oregon
Cape Arago Coquille River Point Adams Warrior Rock Yaquina Bay
Cape Blanco Desdemona Sands Tillamook Willamette River Yaquina Head
Cape Meares Heceta Head Umpqua River    
Pennsylvania
Erie Land Fort Mifflin Blockhouse Schooner Ledge Range Front Schuylkill River Range Front Schuylkill River Range Rear
Erie North Pierhead Presque Isle Schooner Ledge Range Rear    
Puerto Rico
Arecibo Guanica Isla de Cardona Puerto San Juan Punta Mulas
Cabo Rojo Isla Cabras Isla de Mona Punta Borinquen Punta Tuna
Cabo San Juan Isla Caja de Muertos Puerto Ferro Punta Higuero Punta de las Figuras
Culebrita Island        
Rhode Island
Beavertail Conanicut Island Gull Rocks Point Judith Sakonnet
Block Island North Conimicut Hog Island Shoal Pomham Rocks Sassafras Point
Block Island Southeast Dutch Island Ida Lewis Rock Poplar Point Warwick
Brenton Reef Fuller Rock Mussel Shoal Prudence Island Watch Hill
Bristol Ferry Gould's Island Nayatt Point Rose Island Whale Rock
Bullock's Point Great Salt Pond Breakwater Inner Beacon Newport Harbor Sabin Point Wickford Harbor
Castle Hill Great Salt Pond Breakwater Outer Beacon Plum Beach    
South Carolina
Bloody Point Range Front Charleston Georgetown Hilton Head Range Rear Parris Island Range Front
Bloody Point Range Rear Combahee Bank Haig Point Range Front Hunting Island Parris Island Range Rear
Bull Island Fort Ripley Shoal Haig Point Range Rear Morris Island Sullivan Island Range Front
Cape Romain Fort Sumter Harbour Town Morris Island Range Front Sullivan Island Range Rear
Castle Pinckney Fort Sumter Range Rear Hilton Head Range Front Morris Island Range Rear  
Texas
Aransas Pass Clopper's Bar Half Moon Reef Point Isabel Sabine Bank
Bolivar Point Fort Point Halfmoon Shoal Redfish Bar Saluria
Brazos River Galveston Jetty Matagorda Island Redfish Bar Cut Swash Channel
Brazos Santiago        
Vermont
Burlington Breakwater North Colchester Reef Juniper Island Newport Wharf Windmill Point
Burlington Breakwater South Isle la Motte Maxfield Point Whipple Point  
Virgin Islands
Buck Island Fort Louise Augusta Hams Bluff Muhlenfeldt Point  
Virginia
Assateague Chesapeake Killock Shoal Pages Rock Tue Marshes
Back River Craney Island Lamberts Point Point of Shoals Watts Island
Bells Rock Deep Water Shoals Nansemond River Smith Point White Shoal
Bowlers Rock Great Wicomico River New Point Comfort Stingray Point Windmill Point
Cape Charles Hog Island Newport News Middle Ground Tangier Sound Wolf Trap
Cape Henry Jones Point Old Plantation Flats Thimble Shoal York Spit
Cherrystone Bar Jordan Point Old Point Comfort    
Washington
Admiralty Head Cape Flattery Lime Kiln Point No Point Slip Point
Alki Point Cattle Point Marrowstone Point Point Robinson Smith Island
Browns Point Destruction Island Mukilteo Point Wilson Turn Point
Burrows Island Dofflemyer Point New Dungeness Red Bluff West Point
Bush Point Ediz Hook North Head Semiahmoo Harbor Willapa Bay
Cape Disappointment Grays Harbor Patos Island    
Wisconsin
Algoma Pierhead Dunlap Reef Range Rear Manitowoc Breakwater Port Washington Root River
Ashland Breakwater Eagle Bluff Michigan Island Port Washington Breakwater Sand Island
Asylum Point Grassy Island Range Front Michigan Island (New) Port Washington North Pierhead Sheboygan Breakwater
Bailey's Harbor Grassy Island Range Rear Milwaukee Breakwater Pottawatomie Sheboygan North Pier
Bailey's Harbor Range Front Green Bay Entrance Milwaukee Pierhead Racine Harbor Sheboygan North Point
Bailey's Harbor Range Rear Green Island North Point Racine North Breakwater Sherwood Point
Boyer Bluff Kenosha Outer Island Racine North Pierhead Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal
Cana Island Kenosha North Pier Peshtigo Reef Racine Reef Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal North Pierhead
Chambers Island Kevich Pilot Island Raspberry Island Two Rivers
Chequamegon Point Kewaunee Pierhead Plum Island Range Front Rawley Point Wind Point
Devils Island LaPointe Plum Island Range Rear Rockwell Wisconsin Point
Dunlap Reef Range Front Long Tail Point