Lighthouse Reading List

• Cipra, David, Lighthouses, Lightships, and the Gulf of Mexico (Alexandria, Virginia: Cypress Communictions, 1997)
  
  
• Clark, Admont G., Lighthouses of Cape Cod--Martha's Vineyard--Nantucket: Their History and Lore (Hyannis, Massachusetts: Parnassus Imprints, Inc., 1992)
  
  
• Clifford, J. Candace and Mary Louise, Nineteenth-Century Lights: Historic Images of American Lighthouses (Alexandria, Virginia: Cypress Communications, 2000)
  
  
• Clifford, Mary Louise, and J. Candace Clifford, Women Who Kept the Lights: An Illustrated History of Female Lighthouse Keepers, 2nd edition (Alexandria, Virginia: Cypress Communications, 2001)
  
• DeWire, Elinor, Guardians of the Lights (Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press, 1995)
  
  
• _____________,Guide To Florida Lighthouses (Englewood, Florida: Pineapple Press, 1987)
  
  
• de Gast, Robert, The Lighthouses of the Chesapeake (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973)
  
  
• Dean, Love, Lighthouses of the Florida Keys (Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press, 1998)
  
  
• _________, The Lighthouses of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 1991)
  
  
• Holland, F. Ross, Jr., America's Lighthouses: An Illustrated History (New York: Dover Publications, 1981 reprint)
  
  
• ________________, Great American Lighthouses (Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 1989)
  
  
• ________________, Maryland Lighthouses of the Chesapeake Bay: An Illustrated History (Crownsville, Maryland: Maryland Historical Trust, 1997)
  
  
• Hornberger, Patrick, and Linda Turbyville, Forgotton Beacons (Annapolis, Maryland: Eastwind Publishing, 1997)
  
  
• Hyde, Charles, The Northern Lights (Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State Univeristy Press, 1995)
  
  
• Johnson, Robert Erwin, Guardians of the Sea: History of the United States Coast Guard, 1915 to the Present (Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1987)
  
  
• Jones, Ray, and Bruce Roberts, American Lighthouses: A Comphrehensive Guide (Old Saybrook, CT: The Globe Pequot Press, 1998)
  
  
• Kochel, Kenneth, and Jeremy D'Entremont, Atlantic Coast Lighthouses: A Traveler's Guide, 4th edition (Wells, Maine: Lighthouse Digest, 2000)
  
  
• Lowry, Shannon, and Jeff Schultz, Northern Lights: Tales of Alaska's Lighthouses and Their Keepers (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1992)
  
  
• McCarthy, Kevin M., Florida Lighthouses (Univeristy Press of Florida, 1990)
  
  
• ________________, Georgia's Lighthouses and Historical Coastal Sites (Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press, 1998)
  
  
• Noble, Dennis, Lighthouses & Keepers: U.S. Lighthouse Service and Its Legacy (Annapolis, Maryland: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1997)
  
  
• Putnam, George R., Lighthouses and Lightships of the United States (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917 and 1933)
  
  
• Roberts, Cheryl & Bruce, Lighthouse Families (Birmingham, Alabama: Crane Hill Publishers, 1997)
  
  
• Shanks, Ralph, and Lisa Woo Shanks, ed., Guardians of the Golden Gate: Lighthouses and Lifeboat Stations of San Francisco Bay (Petaluma, California: Costaño Books, 1990)
  
  
• Shanks, Ralph C, Jr., and Janetta Thompson Shanks, Lighthouses and Lifeboats of the Redwood Coast (San Anselmo, California: Costaño Books, 1978)
  
  
• Turbyville, Linda, Bay Beacons: Lighthouses of the Chesapeake Bay (Annapolis, Maryland: Eastwind Publishing,1995)
  
  
• U.S. Lighthouse Establishment, Instructions to Light Keepers and Masters of Light-House Vessels, 1902, Reprint (Allen Park, Michigan: Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association, 1989)
  
  
• Yocum, Thomas, Bruce Roberts, and Cheryl Shelton-Roberts, Cape Hatteras America's Lighthouse: Guardian of the Graveyard of the Atlantic (Nashville, Tenessee: Cumberland House, 1999)