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BOSTON (AP) — Boston Light, the nation's first and oldest lighthouse station, is marking 300 years of warning mariners as they navigate the tricky waters of Boston Harbor. A summer celebrating ...
Ahead of its 300th birthday, we get a special look at the history of America's first lighthouse in Little Brewster Island from its current and first woman keeper ...
The nation's oldest lighthouse is turning 300 years old with celebrations and a ceremonial re-lighting. Boston Light sits on a small island roughly 9 miles from downtown Boston.
Here's where it is Boston Light remained in ruins until 1783, when the commonwealth of Massachusetts rebuilt the lighthouse with fish oil lamps and mortared rubblestone to be 75 feet tall.
Two beacons that guided New England mariners past treacherous shoals for generations are back in the spotlight.The Nantucket Lightship, billed as America's oldest and largest floating lighthouse ...
Boston Light is now being sold to a private owner, who will agree to preserve the historical lighthouse. At the end of 2023, Ms Snowman retired from her role.
Boston Light, the last manned light house in the United States, is losing its keeper on New Year's Eve. Sally Snowman, 72, became guardian of the historic lighthouse constructed in 1716, in 2002 ...
Every Christmas, Snow would hire a small plane and drop wrapped gifts to the region’s lighthouse keepers and their families. Author Sara Hoagland Hunter will read from “The Lighthouse Santa ...
The Newburyport Rear Range Lighthouse, about an hour north of Boston, is actually downtown, at 61 ½ Water Street. "This goes back to 1873, in downtown Newburyport.
Nubble Lighthouse made headlines after a little boy famously traveled by wooden box in the air from the lighthouse to the mainland to get to school. It has also been involved in a space mission ...
The long history of the Bird Island lighthouse in Sippican Harbor is now on display through late summer, in a newly opened exhibit at the Sippican Historical Society museum on Front Street.
The long history of the Bird Island lighthouse in Sippican Harbor is now on display through late summer, in a newly opened exhibit at the Sippican Historical Society museum on Front Street.