It also sits on the cliff, so it is one of tallest lighthouses in the Great Lakes area. Commerce boomed on the Great Lakes in the early 20th Century, and lighthouses like this one were built as a ...

In the early days keepers painted it with a whitewash concocted by the Lighthouse Board -- the recipe called for "half a bushel of unslaked lime with boiling water, a peck of salt, half a pound of ...

At the Barnegat Lighthouse Visitor Center on Saturday, March 15 at 1 p.m., attend a lecture about lighthouse keeper Ellen S. Low. The talk will also cover 1830s LBI, other women keepers, Low’s gown ...

Lighthouses were first built to prevent seafarers from crashing into dangerous rock formations and cliffsides (as was tragically commonplace in the early 1800s), and signaled to captains and their ...