The oldest lighthouse in Massachusetts is over 300 years old. When the Massachusetts Bay Colony was first founded in 1630, the Puritans struggled from a scarcity of necessary survival goods which ...

Just north of First Landing State Park is Cape Henry Lighthouse, the first lighthouse ever authorized by Congress. The attraction still has connections with the government: It's located on the ...

The first Ocracoke lighthouse was built on Shell Island and was destroyed by lightning in 1818. The oldest operating lighthouse in North Carolina, the present Ocracoke Lighthouse sits on a ...