You can actually see six lighthouses from the one, if you count Nobska as one. That's retired Coast Guard Captain, Peter Collom. The Nobska lighthouse he's referring to is on your left on the mainland as you head over to the Vineyard. Standing at that lighthouse, you can see five others. Over on Naushon you'll see Tauplin Cove and then over just to the left of that, if you're going from the west toward the east, is Gay Head Light and then up by Vineyard Haven or West Chop and East Chop and then way up on Chapaquidick is Cape Poug.
Lighthouses mark the hazardous points and shoals all the way up to Boston.
In fact, this trade route had lighthouses established as early as 1789. They were critical to the survival of the growing communities here, so much so that one of the first Constitutional acts ceded the colonial lighthouses to the new American Government. There's a whole history and lore about lighthouses that prevail. The first lights that we had were probably bonfires that people built so that ships could stay off of the point. While people sometimes live in the lighthouses, they are no longer manned.