Locally known as Pequot Avenue Lighthouse to distinguish it from the lighthouse just offshore, the present New London Harbor Lighthouse is Connecticut’s oldest and tallest lighthouse and provides an interesting architectural counterpoint to its much newer and flashier neighbor, New London Ledge Lighthouse. It’s also a reminder of the glory ...

New London Harbor Lighthouse was established in 1761 to mark one of the most important ports on Long Island Sound. This lighthouse, just the fourth to be erected in the colonies, was an important beacon, but it failed to adequately warn mariners …

A new rear range light was hastily erected in the form of a fixed white light shown from a square lantern hoisted on a mast to serve the new channel. The New London Lighthouse remained in operation, showing a fixed red light as a coastal light.

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The 1840 Stonington Harbor Lighthouse is an example of the diversity in design that characterized lighthouses built before the Civil War. The new station showed a fixed white light produced by eight lamps with sixteen-inch reflectors, shining from sixty-two feet above sea level.

Cape Tryon, located 2.4 km (1.5 miles) northwest of New London Harbour, is a remarkable red sandstone cliff with a height of 33.5 metres (110 feet). From this lofty perch, the Cape Tryon Lighthouse guides mariners along the northern coast of Prince Edward Island between Richmond Bay and New London, warning of the shallow water that extends out ...

A year-round ferry that runs between Orient Point and New London offers good views of at least five lighthouses, including Orient Point, Plum Island, Little Gull Island, New London Ledge, and New London Harbor.

Stamford Harbor is the most dangerous harbor on the Connecticut coast, and a petition is circulating in that town applying to the Lighthouse Board for the erection of a lighthouse on the reef known as “Harbor Ledge,” and the placing of buoys and …

The construction contract was awarded to New London resident Abisha Woodward, who had recently built Pequot Lighthouse in New London Harbor. The tower of the new lighthouse rose fifty-three feet above sea level and was built of smooth-hammered freestone laid in courses.

Cape Tryon, located 2.4 km (1.5 miles) northwest of New London Harbour, is a remarkable red sandstone cliff with a height of 33.5 metres (110 feet). From this lofty perch, the Cape Tryon Lighthouse guides mariners along the northern coast of Prince Edward Island between Richmond Bay and New London, warning of the shallow water that extends out ...