Timeline: Back River Lighthouse 1829: A 30-foot-tall, conical, whitewashed brick lighthouse with ten oil lamps and ten reflectors and one-story keeper’s dwelling is constructed for just under $5,000 by Winslow Lewis between Back River entrance & the Grandview area of Hampton, Virginia. 1855: Installation of a new revolving machine containing six, twenty-one-inch parabolic reflectors & …
