The United States Lighthouse Service placed a daymarker at the site in 1855, announcing that it would be replaced by a beacon, but its completion was delayed by the hardness of the rock and a nighttime collision into the temporary staging by a trading vessel.

[7] In June 2011, the General Services Administration made the Orient Point Light, along with 11 others, available at no cost to public organizations willing to preserve them.

Polumbo, the founder of the eco-construction company Plant, converted part of the lighthouse's interior into an artist's residency he calls "Plum Gut Grotto".

[10][7] The Archives Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has a collection (#1055) of souvenir postcards of lighthouses and has digitized 272 of these and made them available online.

These include postcards of Orient Point Light[11] with links to customized nautical charts provided by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.