>> Click to enlarge << The Chatham 40-foot-tall brick twin lights were ...

Because there have been so many changes throughout the years to the Chatham Lighthouse on Nantucket Sound in Cape Cod, in Chatham, Massachusetts, we thought we should share a small selection of the many photos that are in our archives of this historic light station.

>> Click to enlarge << For many years, the ruined base of the north ...

>> Click to enlarge << Around 1857, the bird-cage style lanterns of the ...

>> Click to enlarge << In 1877, the government built these two ...

>> Click to enlarge << Josiah Hardy, Jr. (1882-1902), who was a ...

>> Click to enlarge << This photo shows the newly completed oil house ...

>> Click to enlarge << The grave monument of Captain Josiah Hardy at the ...

>> Click to enlarge << Charles H. Hammond (1841-1912), who was the ...

>> Click to enlarge << Old cabinet photo of the twin lights of Chatham ...

>> Click to enlarge << Two unidentified ladies pose with their dog in ...

>> Click to enlarge << This 1905 color post card shows an unusual ...

>> Click to enlarge << This vintage color post card, with a divided ...

>> Click to enlarge << The twin lights of Chatham as they appeared ...

>> Click to enlarge << This photo, taken by lighthouse keeper James T. ...

>> Click to enlarge << The north tower of the twin lights of Chatham ...

>> Click to enlarge << James Thurston Allison, a native of Brooksville, ...

>> Click to enlarge << A newspaper image of the 4th order Fresnel lens ...

>> Click to enlarge << Born in 1872, Annie Haskell married Chatham ...

>> Click to enlarge << The Chatham Lighthouse twin towers as they ...

>> Click to enlarge << This colorful vintage linen post card of the ...

>> Click to enlarge << Shown here from the photo album of Clarence ...

>> Click to enlarge << If you look closely, you will notice laundry on ...

>> Click to enlarge << This vintage automobile parked in front of the ...

>> Click to enlarge << This old divided-back post card printed by the ...

>> Click to enlarge << Old photos, such as this one with the vintage ...

>> Click to enlarge << In 1940, George Theodore Gustavus (1884-1976), a ...

>> Click to enlarge << Shown in this photo are the original 4th order ... Photo by: Julie Lake

>> Click to enlarge << Over the years, vintage post cards, such as this ...

>> Click to enlarge << The Coast Guard’s amphibious landing craft ...

>> Click to enlarge << Chatham Lighthouse with the lookout tower, which ...

>> Click to enlarge << This backside view of the Chatham Lighthouse and ...

>> Click to enlarge << The flag flies high above the well-maintained and ...

>> Click to enlarge << The 1877 lantern of the Chatham Lighthouse is ...

>> Click to enlarge << The 1877 lantern of Chatham Lighthouse sits on a ...

>> Click to enlarge << This rare photo, taken by on May 7, 1969, shows ... Photo by: Brad Wetherell

>> Click to enlarge << In this photo taken for the Cape Cod Chronicle, ... Photo by: Tim Wood

>> Click to enlarge << Chatham Lighthouse, with its new lantern, is ...

>> Click to enlarge << This photo shows the new rotating aero-beacon in ... Photo by: Julie Lake

>> Click to enlarge << Envelopes like this were used to hand out by the ...

>> Click to enlarge << As part of the community’s First Night ... Photo by: Spencer Kennard

>> Click to enlarge << Car clubs that often tour the New England States ...

>> Click to enlarge << On August 18, 1993, the U.S. Coast Guard removed ...

>> Click to enlarge << In December of 1994, the Chatham Town Selectmen ...

>> Click to enlarge << Every year, as part of the community of Chatham’s ...

>> Click to enlarge << Coast Guardsmen Robert Holm, left; Brian ...

>> Click to enlarge << Interior spiral stairway of the Chatham ... Photo by: Julie Lake

>> Click to enlarge << On October 31, 2006, the captain and officers of ... Photo by: Jared Fulcher

>> Click to enlarge << On May 8, 2012, a Coast Guard helicopter took ...

>> Click to enlarge << Patch dating from 1922-1949 The Chatham, ...

>> Click to enlarge << Patch dating from 1949-2005 The Chatham, ...

>> Click to enlarge << Patch dating from 2005 - today The Chatham, ...

This story appeared in the May/Jun 2023 edition of Lighthouse Digest Magazine. The print edition contains more stories than our internet edition, and each story generally contains more photographs - often many more - in the print edition. For subscription information about the print edition, click here.