Stock photography picture of New London Harbor Lighthouse at New London, Connecticut

AW204Y - Licenced Caption New London Harbor Lighthouse at New London, Connecticut Description Locally known as the Pequot Avenue Lighthouse to distinguish it from the lighthouse just offshore, the present New London Harbor Lighthouse is Connecticut’s oldest and tallest lighthouse and provides an interesting architectural counterpoint to its much newer and flashier neighbor, the New London Ledge Lighthouse. It’s also a reminder of the glory days early in the country’s history when New London was the third busiest whaling port, behind New Bedford and Nantucket. The busy port also attracted several immigrants, leading to the beach area near where the lighthouse stands being used as quarantine ground in the 1750’s for recent arrivals to the New World infected with smallpox, a recurring problem at the time. Keywords Active, aid, architecture, Atlantic, Coast, beacon, bird, building, calm, cape, coast, coastal, Connecticut, day, East, Eastern, exterior, flight, flying, guide, harbor, harbour, horizontal, house, knoll, lamp, room, landmark, lighthouse, museum, navigation, New, London, Harbor, Lighthouse, North, America, ocean, operational, pole, poles, reflection, sea, seabird, seaboard, seagull, seascape, sentinel, shore, shoreline, solitude, stars, stripes, structure, symbolic, symbols, tall, tourism, tower, travel, USA, white, wind, wings