Castle Hill Lighthouse
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Castle Hill Lighthouse is located in Narragansett Bay in Newport, Rhode Island and is an active navigation aid for the US Coast Guard and boaters entering the East Passage between Jamestown, Rhode Island on Conanicut Island, and Newport on Aquidneck Island. The lighthouse was completed in 1890 on property formerly belonging to the famous naturalist, oceanographer, and zoologist Alexander Agassiz of Harvard, who sold the land for one dollar. The lighthouse is currently on the property of Castle Hill Resort, and although the light is not open to the public, the shoreline and clifface where the light sits is accessible by several footpaths. Castle Hill Light has also been and still is used as a starting or stopping point in innumerous Newport regattas.
