Welcome to our World of Lighthouses!

When Potomac Electric employees take time away from motors and controllers, they love to travel and take pictures, like most people.

But some of our employees avidly seek out lighthouses. They have a nature born in New England, the land of sailors, fisherman and the sea. They have tried to capture the distinct character and beauty of each lighthouse as they saw it in their own eyes.

Times have changed over the last 200 years - in the age of GPS, lighthouses are no longer needed. Still, they represent the beauty of the sea and the power of the human spirit to explore the unknown.

Many lighthouses no longer exist while others have been protected and preserved as part of our heritage in every country around the world.

You are welcome to review the pictures we have taken. The beautiful experiences of taking them and the memories they invoke of days gone by more than make up for any lack in the expertise of our photographers.

If you would like to send us a lighthouse photo that you enjoy, we will add it to the collection. Please include information on where the lighthouse is/was located and, if known, the year it was built.

You can email the photo and information to us at info@potomacelectric.com.

Thank You
Potomac Electric Employees

LIGHTHOUSES OF THE WORLD

Countries in alphabetical order

Australia

• Cape Bowling Green National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia (1874, 1993)
• Macquarie Lighthouse, Sydney, Australia (1818)

Bahamas, The

• Dixon Hill Lighthouse, San Salvador Island, Bahamas (1856)

Canada

• Closeup of Lighthouse, Vancouver

Denmark

• Lightship, Copenhagen

Germany

• Warnemunde Lighthouse, Rostock, Germany, on Baltic Sea (1897)

Italy

• Faro di Murano Light, Murano Island, Near Venice, Italy (1912)

Malta

• Maltese Lighthouse, Grand Harbour, port of Valletta, Malta, off coast of Sicily

United Kingdom

• Gibbs Hill Lighthouse, Gibbs Hill, Bermuda (1846)
• Lighthouse in Essex
• South Foreland Lighthouse, Dover
• St. David's Lighthouse, St. George's Parish, Bermuda (1879)

USA (States in alphabetical order):

California

• Old Point Loma Lighthouse, San Diego, CA (1855)

Connecticut

• Lighthouse Museum, Stonington, CT
• New London Harbor Light, Long Island Sound, CT (1801)

Florida

• Jupiter Inlet Light, Loxahatachee River, Jupiter, Florida (built in 1860)
• Key West Lighthouse, Key West, FL (1847)
• St. Augustine Light, St. Augustine, FL (1821)

Maine

• Boon Island Light, near York, Maine (1855)
• Cape Neddick "Nubble" Light, York, Maine (first lit in 1879)
• Portland Head Light, Cape Elizabeth, ME (1790)
• Whaleback Light, Kittery, Maine (1872)

Massachusetts

• Bird Island, Buzzards Bay, Marion, MA (1819)
• Boston Light, Little Brewster Island, Boston Harbor, MA (1716, 1783)
• Brant Point Light, Nantucket (1746, 1901)
• Deer Island Light, Boston, MA
• East Chop Light, Martha's Vineyard, MA (1878)
• Eastern Point Light, Gloucester Harbor, Gloucester, MA (1890)
• Chatham Light, Chatham, Cape Cod, MA (1877)
• Gay Head Light (Aquinnah Light), Aquinnah (Gay Head), Martha's Vineyard, MA (1856)
• Graves Light, Boston Harbor, MA (1905)
• Highland Light (Cape Cod Light), Truro, MA (1857)
• Leaving Hyannis Harbor, Little Lighthouse
• Nantucket Light Ship
• Nauset Light (original location), Chatham, MA (1877)
• Nauset Light, Nauset Light Beach, Eastham, MA (1877 in Chatham)
• Nobska Point Light, Woods Hole, MA (1876)
• Palmer's Island Light, New Bedford Harbor, New Bedford, MA (1849)
• Sankaty Head Light, Nantucket, MA (1850)
• Ten Pound Island Lighthouse, Gloucester, MA (1821)
• Three Sisters Lighthouse, Nauset Beach, MA (1839)
• West Chop Light, Martha's Vineyard, MA (1817)

New Hampshire

• Portsmouth Harbor Light, Fort Constitution, New Castle, NH (1878)
• White Island Light (Isle of Shoals Light), Rye, NH (1859)

New York

• Lighthouse on Hudson (at Mouth of Creek)
• Montauk Point Lighthouse, Montauk, Long Island, NY (1796)

Rhode Island

• Beaver Tail Lighthouse, Jamestown, RI (1856)
• Hog Island Shoal Light, Narragansett Bay, near Portsmouth, RI (1899)
• Newport Bridge and Goat Island Light, Newport, RI (1842)
• Rose Island Lighthouse, Narragansett Bay, Newport, RI (1869)

Others

• An Unknown Lighthouse
• Another Lighthouse
• Lighthouse through Sea Grass