"It makes it a lighthouse again," Russell Shippee said. The Shippees have lived in the lighthouse since 1987.

There's one problem with teaching its history: the lighthouse is typically off limits, located inside a private and gated ...

Owners Russell and Cathy Shippee have gotten permission from the U.S. Coast Guard to light the tower, which sits beside the jettied entrance to Wickford Harbor and hasn't been lit since 1882.

A historic moment will soon take place at a historic lighthouse in Wickford.The Poplar Point Lighthouse will brighten up the ...

The East Brother Light Station is on a small island off Point Molate in the strait between San Francisco and San Pablo bays ...

The iconic Ledge Lighthouse, which sits at the mouth of the Thames River in Connecticut, between New London and Groton, has ...

But in the late 1960s, the US Coast Guard decided to automate the station and announced plans to demolish the lighthouse. The local community was outraged and eventually managed to save the ...

“ East Brother Light Station, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, is seeking applicants for Keepers of East Brother Light Station, ...

It was the home of many lighthouse keepers and their families, who prevented ship collisions with a foghorn and a beaming Fresnel lens. The U.S. Coast Guard automated the station in 1969, ...