First lighted in 1823, Ocracoke Lighthouse is North Carolina’s oldest. The Bodie Island Lighthouse contains its original Fresnel lens; it was illuminated for the first time in 1872. At nearly ...
the highest lighthouse in the nation; Ocracoke Lighthouse, located in the harbor that was once home to the infamous pirate Blackbeard; and Rhode Island’s Lime Rock Lighthouse, home to Ida Lewis ...