Portsmouth Harbor Light and its station surroundings, suffered some of the most extensive damage of any lighthouse along the coasts of New Hampshire and Maine during the two recent January 2024 storms. (An article about it in the Portsmouth Herald by Jeff McMenemy)
Two recent January storms caused extensive damage to the base of the historic Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse and an adjacent 1903 oil house. The storms hit almost back to back on Jan. 10 and Jan. 13 and threw around huge slabs of the lighthouse’s base — which dates back to 1804 — like they were “grains of sand,” according to Jeremy D’Entremont, …