Lying 3 miles from Guilford Harbor, Connecticut in Long Island Sound is a crescent shaped three acre island named Faulkner’s Island. The island is surrounded by reefs and submarine rocks which caused many ships to come to grief during the 1700’s. This led to the erection of the 23rd lighthouse station of the United States on the island in 1802. The lighthouse remains an active sentinel of the Sound and has been ‘on duty’ now for more than 200 years.