Plum Beach Lighthouse, Rhode Island
A Renewed Beacon of Hope
Welcome to the official website of the new and improved Plum Beach Lighthouse, located in the shadow of the Jamestown Verrazano Bridge on Narragansett Bay in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. It’s an exciting time for the lighthouse and its owners, the nonprofit group Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse, Inc. Now Rhode Islanders and lighthouse lovers have something to be proud of as the Plum Beach Lighthouse has gone through a metamorphosis in 2003. Join us as we celebrate its new look and its Renewed Beacon of Hope.
This picture is of a lighthouse over 100 years in the making, and the new millennium has brought renewed life to it. If you are familiar with the lighthouse, you have known it as the rusty, deteriorating hulk of metal, an eyesore that formerly welcomed drivers traveling over the Jamestown Bridge, and vessels traveling near the bridge. She has a history that legends are made from, and her legend of her keeper John Ganze can be read on the history page.
Visit our Construction Page to see past and present photos of the lighthouse and it’s many phases of re-construction.
Support the Lighthouse, Purchase a License Plate!
The Friends are now offering the PBL Plate depicting our favorite lighthouse to owners with current RI passenger car registrations. The General Assembly passed a bill giving us the right to sell the plate as a fundraiser to help repaint the lighthouse. Please note the plates are for existing passenger registrations of 5 characters or less, and if you currently have a plate that meets this requirement, your current number goes on the plate. The plate charge is $41.50–$20 from each order goes to repainting and maintaining the lighthouse, and $21.50 goes to the state for the plate production.
To show your support please download the printable PDF, and send it to our snail-mail box at: PBL Plate, PO Box 1041, North Kingstown, RI 02852. Please visit the official plate website www.pblplate.org for more information.
The prints are $20 each and $5 for shipping and handling. If you’d like one of the prints, please download this order form. Send your payment to the address below and the artist will send you your lighthouse print. You can pay by credit card or check. Please make checks payable to Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse, Inc.
PBL Holiday Gift Ideas
Nautical Print by Bill McGregor
The Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse are proud to offer this beautiful rendition of the lighthouse on a Narragansett Bay nautical chart, just in time for the holidays. Created by Johnston artist Bill MacGregor, the prints are 11×14″” and come suitable for framing. Bill has been kind enough to offer us the prints at a deep discount, and a portion of each print is being used to raise additional funds for the lighthouse.