However, the most significant damage to Boston Light happened during the Revolutionary War. After the British troops occupied the lighthouse in 1774, Colonial forces set fire to its wooden parts ...

After the war, it was excavated and sent to the U.S. Lighthouse Establishment in Washington, DC and from there it was sent on to the new Grosse Point Light. The most famous keeper at Grosse Point ...

This light was built in 1760 -- from lottery proceeds from civic-minded Colonial citizens of New London -- it was the 4th (colonial) lighthouse built in the U.S. The original light survived the ...