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LIGHT STATIONS REMAINING
IN THE UNITED STATES (594 in various states of repair) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALABAMA (3) Mobile Point (small tower only on fort) Mobile Bay Middle Ground Sand Island (tower only) ALASKA (14) Cape Decision Cape Henchinbrook (tower only) Cape Sarichef Cape Spencer Cape St. Elias Eldred Rock Five Fingers Guard Island Lincoln Rock (tower only) Mary Island (tower only) Point Retreat Scotch Cap (mostly destroyed) Sentinel Island (tower only) Tree Point (tower only) CALIFORNIA (37) Alcatraz (tower only) Anacapa Island Ano Neuvo Island (ruins) Cape Mendocino (tower only ? relocated) Carquinez Strait (relocated) Crescent City (Battery Point) East Brother Island Farallon Islands Fort Point (tower on parapet only) Lime Point (fog signal building only) Mile Rocks (partially destroyed) Oakland Harbor (relocated and a restaurant) Piedras Blancas (lantern missing) Pigeon Point Point Arena Point Arguello Point Blunt (modern light station, not typical design) Point Bonita Point Cabrillo Point Conception Point Fermin Point Hueneme Point Loma (old) Point Loma (new) Point Montara Point Pinos Point Reyes Point Sur Point Vincente Punta Gorda (tower only) San Luis Obispo Southampton Shoal (relocated) St. George Reef Table Bluff (all structures save tower in situ, tower relocated) Trinidad Head Yerba Buena Island CONNECTICUT (18) Falkner?s Island (tower only) Fairweather (Black Rock - tower only) Great Captain Island Greens Ledge Latimer Reef Lynde Point (at Saybrook) Morgan Point New Haven (Five Mile Point - tower only) New London New London Ledge Peck Ledge Penfield Reef Saybrook Breakwater Sheffield Island (at Norwalk) Southwest Ledge Stamford Harbor Stonington Stratford Point DELAWARE (12) Bellevue Range Delaware Breakwater Fenwick Island Finns Point Range (tower only) Fourteen Foot Bank Harbor of Refuge Liston Range Marcus Hook Range Mispillian Range New Castle Range (tower gone) Port Penn Range Reedy Island Range FLORIDA (28) Alligator Reef Amelia Island American Shoal Anclote Key (tower only) Cape Canaveral (tower Only) Cape Florida (faux dwelling) Cape San Blas Cape St. George (tower leaning, house badly damaged) Carysfort Reef Cedar Key (Seahorse Key) Crooked River (tower only) Egmont Key (tower only) Fort Jefferson (tower on parapet only) Fowey Rocks Gasparilla Island Range (Boca Grande) Hillsboro Inlet Jupiter Inlet Key West Loggerhead Key Pensacola Ponce de Leon Inlet Port Boca Grande Sand Key Sanibel Island Sombrero Key St. Augustine St. Johns River (Mayport) St. Johns St. Marks GEORGIA (4) Cockspur Island (tower only) Little Cumberland (tower only) Sapelo Island (tower only) St. Simons Tybee HAWAII (7) Barbers Point (tower only) Cape Kumukahi Diamond Head Kilauea Makapuu Point (tower only) Molokai Nawiliwili ILLINOIS (2) Chicago Breakwater Grosse Point INDIANA (1) Michigan City LOUISIANA (11) New Canal (Lake Pontchartrain) Pass a? L?Outre (tower only) Pass Manchas (tower only ? Lake Pontchartrain) Point Au Fer Port Pontchartrain (tower only - Lake Pontchartrain) Sabine Pass (tower only) Ship Shoal South Pass (tower only) Southwest Pass Southwest Reef (relocated) Tchefuncte (tower only) MAINE (64) Bass Harbor Baker Island Bear Island Blue Hill Bay Boon Island (tower only) Burnt Coat Harbor Burnt Island Browns Head Cape Elizabeth Cape Neddick Cuckholds (tower only) Curtis Island Deer Island Thorofare/Mark Island (tower only) Dice Head Doubling Point Eagle Island (tower and bell tower only) Egg Rock Fort Point Franklin Island (tower only) Goat Island Goose Rocks Great Duck Island Grindle Point Halfway Rock Hendricks Head Heron Neck Indian Island Isle Au Haut Kennebec River Range Little River Libby Island Lubec Channel Marshall Point Matinicus Rock Mt. Desert Rock Monhegan Island Moose Peak (tower only) Narraguagus (Pond) Island Nash Island (tower only) Owls Head Pemaquid Point Perkins Island Petit Manan Pond Island (tower only) Portland Breakwater (tower only) Portland Head Prospect Harbor Pumpkin Island Ram Island Ram Island Ledge Rockland Breakwater Saddleback Ledge (tower only) Seguin Island Spring Point Ledge Squirrel Point Tenants Harbor Two Bush Island (tower only) West Quoddy Head Whitehead Whitlock Mills Winter Harbor (Mark I.) Wood Island MARYLAND (18) Baltimore Bloody Point Shoal Cove Point Craighill Channel Range Drum Point (relocated) Fishing Battery (very bad shape) Fort Carroll (small lantern on fort, poor condition) Fort Washington (bell tower only) Havre de Grace (Concord Point) Hooper Strait (relocated) Piney Point Point Lookout Pooles Island (tower only) Sandy Point Seven-Foot Knoll (relocated) Sharps Island (leaning badly) Thomas Point Shoal Turkey Point (tower only) MASSACHUSETTS (50) Annisquam Bakers Island Bass River (badly altered) Bird Island (tower only) Borden Flats Boston Brandt Point (and old structure/housing) Butler Flats Cape Ann (Thatcher Island) Cape Cod (Highland) Cape Pogue (tower only) Chatham Cleveland Ledge Duxbury Pier East Chop (tower only) Eastern Point (The) Graves Gay Head (tower only) Great Point (reconstructed tower only) Edgartown (tower only) Hospital Point Range Hyannis Long Island Head (tower only) Long Point (tower only) Marblehead (tower only) Mayo Beach Minots Ledge Monomoy Island Nauset Beach Nauset (Three Sisters) Ned Point (tower only) Newburyport Harbor Range Nobska Point Palmer Island (tower only) Plum Island Plymouth (Gurnet) Point Gammon (damaged tower only) Race Point Sandy Neck Sankaty Head (damaged tower only) Scituate Stage Harbor (damaged tower) Straitsmouth (tower only) Tarpaulin Cove (tower only) Ten Pound Island (tower only) West Chop Wings Neck Winter Island (tower only) Wood End (tower only) MICHIGAN (90) Alpena (tower only) Au Sable Point Beaver Island Beaver Island Harbor Big Bay Point Big Sable Point Bois Blanc Charlevoix Pierhead Cheboygan River Range Lights Copper Harbor Crisp Point (tower only) DeTour Point Detroit River Eagle Harbor Eagle River Fort Gratriot Fourteen Foot Shoal Fourteen Mile Point Frankfort North Breakwater (towers only) Grand Haven Range Light (towers only) Grand Island East Channel Grand Island North Grand Traverse Granite Island Grays Reef Gull Rock Harbor Beach (tower only) Holland Harbor (Big Red) Huron Rock Isle Royal Lake St. Clair Old Channel Range (towers only) Lansing Shoal Little Sable (tower only) Little Traverse Manistee Range Lights (only tower remains) Manistique Manitou Island Marquette Harbor Martin Reef McGulpin?s Point Mendota (Bete Gris) Menagerie Island Middle Island Mission Point Munising Range Lights Muskegon Range Lights (towers only) North Manitou Shoal Old Mackinac Point Ontonagon Passage Island Peninsula Point (tower only) Poe Reef Point Au Batques Point Betsie Point Iroquois Port Austin Reef Port Sanilac Portage Lake Lower Entrance Range Portage River Poverty Island Presque Isle (new and old) Presque Isle Range Lights Rock Harbor Rock of Ages Round Island (Mackinac Island) Round Island (Mud Lake) Saginaw River Range Lights Sand Point (Green Bay) Sand Point (Lake Superior) Sands Hills Seul Choix Point Skillagalee (Ile Aux Galets - tower only) South Fox Island South Manitou Island Spectacle Reef Squaw Island Squaw Point St. Helena St. Joseph St. Martin Island Stannard Rock Sturgeon Point Tawas Thirty Mile Point Thunder Bay Island Waugoshance Whitefish Point White River White Shoal MINNESOTA (7) Duluth North Pier Duluth Range Lights Grand Marais Minnesota Point (hull of tower only) Split Rock Superior Pierhead Range Twin Harbors MISSISSIPPI (3) Biloxi (tower only) Chandeleur Island (tower only) Ship Island (tower only) NEW HAMPSHIRE (3) Portsmouth Harbor Isle of Shoals (White Island) Whaleback NEW JERSEY (13) Absecon (tower only) Barnegat (tower only) Brandywine Shoal Cape May Eastern Point (Maurice River) Great Beds Hereford Inlet Miah Maull Shoal Naves ink Sandy Hook Seagirt Ship John Shoal Tinicum Rear Range Light NEW YORK (65) Barcelona (Lake Erie ? lantern missing) Barber Point (Lake Champlain) Bluff Point (Lake Champlain) Braddock Point (Lake Ontario - lantern missing) Buffalo (Lake Erie - tower only) Buffalo South Breakwater (Lake Erie) Charlotte?Genesee (Lake Ontario) Cedar Island Cold Spring Harbor (relocated) Coney Island Conover-Chapel Hill Range Cross Over Island (St. Lawrence River) Crown Point (Lake Champlain - tower only) Cumberland Head (Lake Champlain) Dumpling Island Dunkirk (Lake Erie) Eatons Neck Elm Tree - New Dorp Range Esopus Meadows Execution Rocks Fire Island Fort Niagara Fort Wadsworth (lantern on fort, dwelling removed) Galloo Island (Lake Ontario) Great Beds Horse Island (Lake Ontario) Horseshoe Reef (badly deteriorated) Horton Point Hudson ? Athens Little Gull Island Lloyd Harbor Montauk Point North Brother Island (tower portion of house/tower missing, abandoned) North Dumpling Island Ogdensburg (Lake Ontario) Old Field Point Old Orchard Shoal Oswego Breakwater (Lake Ontario) Plum Island Point Aux Roches (Lake Champlain) Point Orient Princess Bay (lantern missing) Race Rock Robbins Reef Rock Island (St. Lawrence River) Romer Shoal Rondout Creek II Salmon River (Selkirk - Lake Ontario)) Sands Point Saugerties Sister Island (St. Lawrence River) Split Rock (Lake Champlain) Sodus (Lake Ontario) Staten Island (tower only) Statue of Liberty Stepping stones Stony Point (Hudson River) Stony Point (Lake Ontario) Stratford Shoal Sunken Rock (St. Lawrence River) Tarrytown Thirty Mile Point (Lake Ontario) Throgs Neck (Dwelling only) Tibbets Point (Lake Ontario) West Bank NORTH CAROLINA (9) Bald Head (tower only) Bodie Island Cape Hatteras Cape Lookout Currituck Beach Oak Island Ocracoke Prices Creek (only tower sans lantern remain) Roanoke River (relocated) OHIO (11) Ashtabula Cleveland West Breakwater Conneaut Fairport Grand River Lorain Marblehead South Bass Island Toledo Harbor Turtle Island (mostly gone) West Sister (tower only) OREGON (9) Cape Arago (tower only) Cape Blanco (tower only) Cape Meares (tower only) Coquille River (tower only) Heceta Head Tillamook Rock Umpqua River Yaquina Bay Yaquina Head (tower only) PENNSYLVANIA (2) Erie (land) Erie Presque Isle PUERTO RICO (16) Arecibo Cabras Island Cape Rojo Cape San Juan Cardona Island Culbrita Guanica Mona Island Muertos Island Point Borinquen Point Figuras Point Jiguero Point Mulas (badly damaged) Point Tuna Port Ferro Port San Juan RHODE ISLAND (21) Beavertail Block Island North Block Island SE Bristol Ferry (faux lantern) Castle Hill (tower only) Conanicut Island (no lantern) Conimicut Dutch Island (tower only) Goat Island (Newport Harbor - tower only) Hog Island Shoal Ida Lewis Rock (badly reconfigured, yacht club) Nayatt Point Plum Beach Point Judith Pomham Rocks Popular Point Prudence Island (tower only) Rose Island Sakonnet Warwick Watch Hill SOUTH CAROLINA (7) Cape Romain (two towers) Georgetown Haig Point Rear Range Hilton Head (on golf course) Hunting Island (tower only) Little Cumberland Morris Island (tower only) TEXAS (8) Aransas Pass Bolivar Point Brazos River Galveston Jetty (lantern missing) Half Moon Reef (relocated) Matagorda Point Isabel (tower only) Sabine Bank VERMONT (5) Colchester Reef Isle La Motte Juniper Island Lake Magogg Windmill Point VIRGINIA (9) Assateague (tower only) Cape Charles (tower only) Cape Henry (old ? tower only and new) Jones Point New Point Comfort (tower only) Newport News Middle Ground Old Point Comfort Thimble Shoal Wolf Trapp WASHINGTON (21) Admiralty Island (fake lantern) Alki Point Browns Point Burrows Island Cape Disappointment (tower only) Cape Flattery Destruction Island Ediz Hook Grays Harbor (tower only) Lime Kiln Marrowstone Point Mukilteo New Dungeness North Head Patos Island (tower only) Point No Point (tower only) Point Robinson Point Wilson Slip Point (no tower) Turn Point West Point WISCONSIN (29) Algoma Bailey?s Harbor Bailey?s Harbor Range Cana Island Chambers Island Devils Island Eagle Bluff Kenosha Kewaunee Pierhead La Pointe Long Tail Point (hull of tower only) Manitowoc Breakwater Michigan Island Milwaukee Breakwater Milwaukee North Point Minneapolis Shoal Outer Island Pilot Island (Port des Mort) Plum Island Port Washington Breakwater Pottawatomie Racine Reef Raspberry Island Sand Island Sheboygan Breakwater Sherwood Point Sturgeon Bay Canal Range Two Rivers Point (Rawley Point) Wind Point -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Basis for selecting the number of light stations remaining in the U.S. The listing of light stations was based on stations as opposed to towers. Some towers were never part of a manned station. The list includes any one time manned station of which some structure remains. In a few cases the "classical" tower has been removed, but the dwelling, fog signal house or some other combination of structures remain. * In the case of a set of range lights the site is considered one station. * Where two towers remain either as a two tower station (Bakers Island, Cape Ann) or the original and new tower still remain (Cape Romain, Cape Henry) the site is counted as one station. * However, if the "new" tower is located a considerable distance (Point Loma) then we counted those as separate sites or stations. * Where the ?house? structure of a caisson or screw-pile type structures has been removed the site is not counted. * Non-federal lighthouses (private aids to navigation) were not counted, nor special towers like the William Livingston Memorial tower in Lake Erie as it was never a manned station. |
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