An Iconic Ride to a Historic Landmark
Welcome Bikers! Experience Daytona Bike Week at the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse & Pacetti Hotel Museum Daytona Bike Week is back for 2025, and there’s no better place to ride than […]
Race to the Top: A Must-Visit Destination for Race Fans
As the engines roar and the excitement of Race Week fills the air, take your experience to the next level with a visit to the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse & Museum […]
Black History Month: African American Lighthouse Keepers
There are few documented instances, and little written information about African-American lighthouse keepers in the U.S. Lighthouse Establishment or Service. In the nineteenth or very early twentieth centuries, African-Americans just […]
A SHINING LIGHT ON A STARRY NIGHT AT PONCE INLET LIGHTHOUSE’S MUSEUM AT NIGHT
You’ll see stars even closer than usual from the National Historic Landmark Ponce Inlet Lighthouse at its 12th Annual Museum at Night on February 3 from 5 pm to 8 […]
Grant, Greed, Graft, Grand Juries, The Guilded Age, Special Prosecuters and General Orville Elias Babcock
The late spring of 1884 was equally star-crossed for both former U.S. president, Ulysses S. Grant, and his friend, fellow-officer, advisor and subordinate, Orville Elias Babcock. General Babcock was Grant’s […]
Building a Lighthouse at the Inlet
So why was a lighthouse built here at this inlet in 1835 and another, a second one, in 1887? Didn’t the 1835 fiasco prove, once and for all, the futility […]
Other Lighthouses That Don’t Look Like Lighthouses
Is that a lighthouse? To the untrained eye, the first one looks like a very tall column tapering to the top with an old-fashioned looking streetlight at the top. Let […]
Lighthouse Oil Myths & Folklore
What Lighthouse Keepers Did Not Do! The period of automation of lighthouses across the United States, naturally coinciding with the introduction of electricity to light stations, not only reduced the […]
Why Fall is the Perfect Time to Visit the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse & Historic Pacetti Hotel Museum
If you’re looking for the ideal season to explore the treasures of Florida’s rich history, fall stands out as the best time to visit the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse and the […]
Ponce Inlet Lighthouse & The Pacetti Hotel Museum Celebrate Labor Day
This Labor Day, walk in the shoes of pioneers, hotellers, lighthouse keepers, and their families doing housekeeping, chores, children’s tasks and games!
