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Pigeon Point Light Station or Pigeon Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse built in 1871 to guide ships on the Pacific coast of California. It is the tallest lighthouse (tied with Point Arena Light) on the West Coast of the United States. It is still an active Coast Guard aid to navigation.
Smith Point, at the mouth of the Potomac River, has been marked by a succession of lights, having been served by three towers, three lightships, a screw-pile lighthouse, and the present caisson structure. The first light, a stone tower, was erected by Elzy Burroughs on Smith Point itself in 1802. Erosion at the point was severe, and the light ...
Point No Point Light ; Location: Hansville, Washington: Coordinates: 1]: Tower; Constructed: 1879: Foundation: Masonry: Construction: Brick and stucco: Automated: 1977: Height: 30 feet (9.1 m): Shape: Square: Heritage: National Register of Historic Places listed place : Light; First lit: 1880: Focal height: 27 feet (8.2 m): Lens: Fifth order Fresnel lens (1880); Fourth order Fresnel lens (1898 ...
The coast off Point Sur Lighthouse was the location of the sinking of the United States Navy airship USS Macon (ZRS-5) in 1935. The Lighthouse Service was absorbed into the Coast Guard in 1939, and Point Sur Lighthouse became the property of the Coast Guard. The lightstation was automated in the late 1960s, and in 1974 ceased to have a light ...
Point No Point (Lushootseed: hadᶻqs) is an outcropping of land on the northeast point of the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington, the United States. It was the location of the signing of the Point No Point Treaty and is the site of the Point No Point Light. The Lushootseed name of the point is hadᶻqs, which means "long point". [1]
Maps show where the northern lights may be visible over the United States. ... The Northern Lights are visible over the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge on October 11, 2024 near New York City ...
A stone lighthouse was constructed in 1825 on shore at Thomas Point [3] by John Donahoo, Thomas Point Light.It was replaced in 1838 by another stone tower. The point was subject to continuing erosion (which would eventually bring down the lighthouse on the point in 1894), [6] and in 1873 Congress appropriated $20,000 for the construction of a screw-pile structure out in the bay, Thomas Point ...
The Sands Point Lighthouse is located in the Incorporated Village of Sands Point in the Town of North Hempstead, in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The fourth lighthouse to be established on Long Island, this 1809 stone tower was built by an American Revolutionary War veteran who stayed on as its ...