The six one-hour programs visit remote locations such as Thomas Point Lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay, the reef lights of Florida’s southern coast, California’s St. George’s Reef Lighthouse ...

Built in 1792, the Old Cape Henry Lighthouse stood guard over the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay for almost 90 years before the New Cape Henry lighthouse replaced it in 1881. Learn about the ...

It was manned by the Coast Guard until 1986 when it became the last lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay to be fully automated. It is the only screw-pile lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay still in its ...

There is a picture of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel on the cover of "The Way It Is," the first album by Bruce Hornsby and The Range. Following its opening in 1964, the Bridge-Tunnel was ...

When he considered buying Smith Point, he had never seen the lighthouse nor set foot in Virginia. His wife didn’t think he was serious until he began spreading pictures on the table over dinner.

(Photo by Adrin Snider/Newport News Daily Press/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) Multiple coalitions of champions of the Chesapeake Bay set their sights on the number as far back as 2014.

The Cedar Point Lighthouse is surrounded by scaffolding as workers start the task of repointing its stone exterior. COURTESY ...

The East Brother Light Station is a historic lighthouse built in the 1870s on an island in the San Francisco Bay that is now run as a bed-and-breakfast for public visitors. (Photo courtesy of Tom ...

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The brick lighthouse was constructed in the 1790s and was an important step for trade along the Virginia and Maryland coasts, as it made the Chesapeake Bay easier and safer to navigate.