When the Massachusetts Bay Colony was first founded ... Cruise tours of all the Boston Harbor lighthouses are offered by the NPS and other third-party companies in the summer.

On Little Brewster Island in Massachusetts Bay, Boston Light remains the oldest operating lighthouse in the United States, a landmark steeped in maritime history and a defining feature of the ...

The first lighthouses were built to foster the growing maritime economy of the colonies and many precede the birth of the nation. This region ranges from the rocky coast of Massachusetts to the ...

For its relatively small size (100 square miles), Martha's Vineyard has its fair share of lighthouses ... constructed for Crane Beach in Ipswich, Massachusetts, this 1800s-era lighthouse was ...