The Fenwick Island Lighthouse

The Fenwick Island Lighthouse

Erected 1858

In operation from 1859 to 1978

as an official aid to navigation

Transferred to Delaware, 1981

Restored, 1982 – 1983, by The Friends of

the Fenwick Island Lighthouse under the

leadership of W. Paul Pepper, President

With the assistance of:

The State ...

The Battle of Long Island

22-29 August 1776

In the summer of 1776 this site saw both the first coast defense of the newborn United States & the opening of the largest battle of the Revolutionary War. On that original Fourth of July, a small American ...

Island-Hopping the Straits

In 1920 the need for extensive highways in Michigan was becoming evident and Horatio S. Earle, highway commissioner, suggested a submerged, floating tunnel. A counter-proposal was made by C. E. Fowler, a consulting engineer from New York City.

The Fowler proposal ...

First Order Fresnel Lens from the Hog Island Light

This pavil­ion dis­plays a first order Fresnel lens from the sec­ond Hog Island Light. The lens began ser­vice in 1896. Originally built in 1852, the first build­ing was destroyed by ero­sion and rebuilt in 1896, only to be deac­ti­vated in ...

The Block House (Governors Island)

The design of this classic and austere Greek Revival building of the early 1840s is attributed to architect Martin E. Thompson. It is called the "Block House" because it was used for a time as a military prison. This stone-trimmed ...

The Canary Islanders

Earliest civilian colonists of San Antonio, this nucleus of pioneers from the Canary Islands formed the first organized civil government in Texas and founded the village of San Fernando de Bexar in 1731.

Following a sea and land voyage of over ...