Spectacle Reef Lighthouse 54 Standard Rock Lighthouse, Lake Superior 56 MINNESOTA Split Rock Lighthouse 57 NEW HAMPSHIRE Isle of Shoals Lighthouse 59 Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse 61 NEW JERSEY Navesink Lighthouse 62 Sandy Hook Lighthouse 63 NEW YORK Crown Point Memorial, Lake Champlain 64 Portland Harbor (Barcelona) Lighthouse, Lake Erie 65 Race Rock Lighthouse 67 NORTH CAROLINA Cape Fear Lighthouse “Bald Head Light” 69 Cape Hatteras Lighthouse 71 Cape Lookout Lighthouse 73 Ocracoke Lighthouse 75 OREGON Tillamook Rock Lighthouse 77 RHODE ISLAND Beavertail Lighthouse 78 Prudence Island Lighthouse 78 SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston Lighthouse, Morris Island 80 TEXAS Point Isabel Lighthouse 82 VIRGINIA Cape Charles Lighthouse 83 Cape Henry Lighthouse 85 WASHINGTON Cape Flattery Lighthouse 87 Foreword Under the supervision of the United States Coast Guard, there are today some 158 manned lighthouses in the nation. Another 60 are cared for by other Coast Guard units in the general area. There are hundreds of other lights of varied description that are operated automatically. And, as technology improves, more and more lighthouses are being operated without a full time crew. Indeed, many of the isolated lighthouses described in this booklet are scheduled for automation. In the course of our history as a nation, and before that as British colonies, we have built hundreds of lighthouses, some of which still stand though now inactive, having been sold for private residential or other use. Many have been rebuilt and not a few have succumbed to the ravages of time. The history of our lighthouses thus parallels the history of our nation.