Famous U.S. Lighthouses By Picture

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Easternmost U.S. point	Several miles from shore in Lake Michigan


Millions ride over it every year without seeing it.	Oldest light tower in the U.S.	The station is the oldest in U.S., but the new tower only dates to 1783.


Outside the Thames River	Only marble lighthouse in the U.S.	On a bluff with sweeping views of a vast natural harbor


	This light bid farewell to 7 castaways the day President Kennedy was shot.	The lightkeepers escaped with everyone else in 1963.


Nominal island home of Coast Guard admirals.	At 210 feet, the U.S.A.'s tallest lighthouse was famously moved 2,900 feet in 1999.	1,000s of miles from Dutch Harbor


	Perhaps the most widely recognized lighthouse in the world. ...if you don't count the last one in the quiz.	Small rock 15 miles from the nearest island and 25 miles from the mainland, rising abruptly from 600-ft deep water. Buildings occasionally wash away.