Jones Point Light

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Jones Point Light in 2007
Jones Point Light in 2007
Jones Point Light in 2007
Jones Point Light in 2007

Alexandria, Virginia

Built: 1856

Automated: 1919

Decommissioned: 1926

This small, one-story wooden house with a lantern on top, is the oldest surviving inland lighthouse in the United States. It originally housed a fifth order Fresnel lens. It is part of Jones Point Park on the bank of the Potomac River. It was relit in 1995 as a private aid to navigation.


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