The current tower was built in 1898, and the original was built 110 years before.

Also called Newburyport Harbor Light, the tower is open on select dates, weather permitting.

This spindly lighthouse dates from 1895, when it replaced the original brick-and-wood one constructed in 1835. It is one of a handful of such pyramidal skeleton lighthouses in the United States.

Marblehead Lighthouse is open for tours through special arrangement.

This lighthouse—sometimes called the Old Scituate Lighthouse—dates from 1811, and was out of commission for much of its history from 1860 to 1994.

The Scituate Historical Society, which has managed the property since 1968, calls it “the most welcoming Lighthouse in the United States.”

The current tower here dates from 1843—making it America’s oldest freestanding wooden lighthouse—and is sometimes called Plymouth Light.

There are occasional open houses for the lighthouse, though the grounds are open to the public.

Preservationists moved the lighthouse in 1996 from the edge of a 60-foot cliff.

It is open for tours.

The National Park Service took control of this trio of 15-foot lighthouses in 1975.

They were restored in the 1980s, though their roots date from the 1830s.

The original lighthouse here dated from the late 1830s, and the current one from a series of moves in the 1890s and early 1900s.

The grounds are open to the public, but the lighthouse itself is not.

The Town of Falmouth formally took control of this lighthouse, which dates from the 1820s, from the Coast Guard in the spring of 2016.

The surrounding 4-acre preserve is open to the public. The lighthouse itself is not.

The Cape Poge lighthouse, which dates from 1893, is part of a much larger wildlife refuge. Its light is 63 feet up and can be seen 9 miles out to sea.

Tours are available with a reservation.

The original structure was built in 1796, making Gay Head the oldest lighthouse site on Martha’s Vineyard.

The current one dates from the 1850s, and is open to the public during the summer. In early 2015, the lighthouse was moved 129 feet away from eroding cliffs.

This beacon originally went up in 1746 as only the second lighthouse in colonial America. It has since been moved and rebuilt more times than any other lighthouse in the country.

It is closed to the public, but the surrounding grounds are wide open.