Long Island Head Lighthouse
Fl W 2.5s🇺🇸Northern Massachusetts, USInactive
Location & Light Range
About Long Island Head Lighthouse
The current brick tower at Long Island Head stands 16 meters tall and was built in 1819. Its focal plane reaches 36.5 meters above sea level. This structure is the fourth lighthouse to be established on the island, with the first dating back to 1819. The light emitted a white signal. Although operational status is now false, the lighthouse served the Boston Harbor area for many years.
Why it matters: This site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Background
Long Island Head Light is an historic lighthouse on Long Island in Boston Harbor, Boston, Massachusetts. The current brick tower is the fourth lighthouse on the island.
The light was first established in 1819, largely as a result of a study conducted by the Boston Marine Society, which had built the daybeacon on Nixes Mate 14 years earlier. It was a 20-foot (6.1 m) stone tower known as "Inner Harbor Light". It was the second of the four Boston lights—103 years after Boston Light, but ten years before the first daybeacon at the site of Deer Island Light, and before The Graves Light, built in 1905. In 1853, it was reported in the New England Farmer, that Captain Charles A. Beck, was keeper of the Light for twenty-eight years.
The stone tower fell into disrepair and was replaced by one of the earliest cast iron lighthouse structures, thirty-four feet tall (pictured below). In 1857, a fourth order Fresnel lens replaced the lamps and reflectors which had been in place. During the next twenty years it sustained damage in a number of storms. In 1881, it was replaced again, by a conical cast iron structure and a new wood keeper's house. Fort Strong was significantly enlarged around the start of the 20th century and it was necessary to move the lighthouse to a location out of the way of the concussion from the guns, so the current brick tower was constructed in 1900-01. Remnants of the fort can be seen to the southeast of the light in the satellite views available by clicking on theLight & Optic
Characteristic Signature
Fl W 2.5s
- Flash Type
- Flashing
- Light Color
- White
- Flash Count
- 1 flash
- Interval
- 2.5s
- Focal Height
- 36.5m
Construction & History
- Year Built
- 1819
- Heritage Status
- National Register of Historic Places listed place
References & Identifiers
- Wikipedia
- Read on Wikipedia →
- Wikidata
- Q6672695 →
- OpenStreetMap
- View on OSM →
Tower & Structure
- Tower Height
- 16m
Location
- City
- Northern Massachusetts
- Country
- 🇺🇸US
- Latitude
- 42.3302°
- Longitude
- -70.9577°
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