In the days of old, before there was radar, radios, or satellite navigation, one of the tools mariners used to find their way at sea was lighthouses. If they could see one, they knew there was land close by, and it was too hazardous of an area for them to navigate. Today’s site features a site that looks at some of those old houses.

Called The Range Light Keepers, this site features a visit to some unique lighthouses in the state of Maine. They are called range lights, and have been here since 1898. A range lighthouse is different from a normal lighthouse as you can see at the site. This is one of the few wooden ones built, and it was one of the last to be automated…

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An aid for navigation and pilotage at sea, a lighthouse is a tower building or framework sending out light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire. More primitive navigational aids were once used such as a fire on top of a hill or cliff (see beacon). Because of modern navigational aids, the number of active lighthouses has declined to fewer than 1,500 worldwide. Lighthouses are used to mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals away from the coast and safe entries to harbors. [Encyclopedia Lockergnome]