Day Trips: Port Isabel Lighthouse The lighthouse guided ships through the channel between Padre Island and the mainland By Gerald E. McLeod , Fri., June 26, 2020 ...

The Port Isabel Lighthouse still offers a commanding view of South Padre Island and Laguna Madre more than 150 years after it was built By Gerald E. McLeod , Fri., Jan. 16, 2009 Tweet ...

"When Tacoma began to become more and more of a shipping center they needed a lighthouse to direct ships into the port," said Jim Harnish with Points Northeast Historical Society. "They built a ...

"We have the 1903 lighthouse keeper's cottage, that is where Mr. and Mrs. Brown lived, the first light housekeepers to occupy that house," said Tom Smith, a docent for the Browns Point Lighthouse.