"THE GUIDING LIGHTS"
Limited Edition Gicleé Prints and
Lithograph Prints

Gicleé: 21" x 29"
Paper Size: 24" x 32"
Edition Size: 150
Unframed/Unmatted Price: $250.00


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Lithograph: 13" x 18" 
Paper Size: 16" x 20"
Edition Size: 1000 (un-numbered)
Unframed/Unmatted Price $22.00  

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The Guiding Lights

The old and new lighthouses at Cape Henry have served as “guiding lights” into
Chesapeake Bay in Virginia since 1791.  The older, stone structure, was the first
lighthouse built by the United States Government and one of the first public works
projects of the new nation.  It remained in service until 1882, witnessing landing by
British troops in 1812, and clashes between Union and Confederate forces during the
Civil War.

The “new” Cape Henry Lighthouse, 163 ft tall and made of cast iron, has been in continuous service since 1881, and guided outbound Allied convoys in World Wars I and II, and carrier battle groups leaving for and returning from wars in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, as well as commercial shipping in and out of ports in the Hampton Roads area.  An officially manned Coast Guard Station until 1983, Cape Henry is now a fully automated aid to navigation.

The large stone cross in the center was erected in 1935, and commemorates the cross put up by British colonists two days after their first landing in Virginia on April 26^th, 1607.  The colonists went on to establish the first English settlement in the New World at Jamestown.  The cross for them - and for us now - represents the true Guiding Light.