How many lighthouses are there in Pennsylvania? Well that’s easy, or is it? There are THREE on Lake Erie at the city of Erie. ( See the page on Pennsylvania ) there used to be a couple more along the Delaware River in the Philadelphia area. If you want to know about these too, go to the website “Lighthouse Friends” and choose Pennsylvania. So how many lighthouses ARE or WERE once in Pennsylvania? That’s a much bigger number and different sources will give you different answers. Many lighthouses that WERE are no longer, and barely a trace remains. Then there is the much larger question – how many lighthouses ARE or WERE in the United States? Ooh, that’s a hard one, as again many that were are no longer. Often when new lighthouses replaced older ones, and that happened almost everywhere. In only a few sites is the lighthouse tower that now stands the original one built at that location.
All that said, this website primarily highlights those at which Jack and Tobi have been active day to day guides/docents/keepers-if-you will. Try as they have been doing, they will only have served at a relative few of those many that survive. But they have actively VISITED many, many more in the U.S.A. and in other countries too in their travels. I hope any readers of this page are familiar with the LIGHTHOUSE PASSPORT program sponsored by the U.S. Lighthouse Society. Like a regular passport you use for international travel, the Lighthouse Passport is a way to remember those that you visit. Go to the Lighthouse Society website – USLHS.ORG – and find out more.
Several of Jack and Tobi’s favorite lighthouses where they have not (YET) been volunteer keepers are pictured below. Top to bottom they are: Copper Harbor MI; Assateague VA; Makapuu’ HI; and Cana Island, WI.



