Juniper Island Light

Juniper Island Light on Lake Champlain in Vermont was established to guide vessels approaching Burlington Harbor and became the lake’s oldest light station. First created in 1826 to replace a simple private beacon, the site began with a 30-foot brick tower and was rebuilt in 1846 as a distinctive cast-iron lighthouse connected to a brick keeper’s house. After receiving a fourth-order Fresnel lens in 1853, the station also later supported harbor operations as a storage depot. Although the light was discontinued in 1954 and the keeper’s house was badly damaged by fire in 1962, the tower survived as the oldest surviving cast-iron lighthouse in the United States.

South Burlington, Vermont · United States