For more than two centuries, sailors off the Virginia shores relied on pillars of light to guide them. National Lighthouse Day honors these towers of light and their historical significance Monday. In ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — A celebration of the two historic lighthouses at Cape Henry will be held Thursday, on National Lighthouse Day. Both the old and new Cape Henry lighthouses will be open to the public ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Long before the U.S. gained independence, the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay was the entrance to our ...

Just north of First Landing State Park is Cape Henry Lighthouse, the first lighthouse ever authorized by Congress. The attraction still has connections with the government: It's located on the grounds ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — After seven months of construction, restoration on the Cape Henry Lighthouse is complete. City officials said they wanted to restore the lighthouse not only to protect it from ...

When early Americans needed a lighthouse in the late 1700s, they picked the tallest sand dune on the beach’s northernmost point and started laying down bricks. Soon the Revolutionary War began, and ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Locals, tourists and history enthusiasts gathered at Virginia Beach's historic lighthouses on Thursday to mark National Lighthouse Day. The construction of the historic Old Cape ...

Built in 1792, the Cape Henry Lighthouse is not the oldest lighthouse in the country, but it is the first. Cape Henry Lighthouse "I think this one holds up because of its historical significance," ...

Winter can be brutal on the cape where the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay meet. Wind lashes the seaside with bone-chilling fierceness. It swirls around the 50-foot-tall sand dune where the old ...

Long before the U.S. gained independence, the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay was the entrance to our most vital trading corridor. In the 1720s, plans were in the works to put a lighthouse at Cape Henry.