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Great Point Light history - NEW ENGLAND LIGHTHOUSES

This light is 70 feet above the level of the sea, in a stone tower 60 feet high. It consists of 14 lamps, three with 15, and eleven with 16-inch reflectors.

Great Point Light - Wikipedia

Great Point Light, officially Nantucket Light, is a lighthouse located on the northernmost point of Nantucket Island. ... First built in 1784, the original wooden ...

Great Point Light - US Coast Guard Historian's Office

Great Point Light (Nantucket Light), Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Tower style lighthouse, first built of wood in 1784, destroyed by fire in 1816, ...

Great Point Lighthouse - Nantucket.net

At the northernmost point of the island out past Wauwinet, within the Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Reserve, you'll find the most powerful light in New England!

Great Point Lighthouse, Massachusetts at Lighthousefriends.com

Coffin asked for and received a pay raise due to his hardship. Then, in 1816 a fire of suspicious origin destroyed the original wooden tower. Winslow Lewis ...

Great Point Lighthouse on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts

Great Point Light (also known as Nantucket Light) was built in 1785, to help mariners navigate the passage between Great Point on Nantucket Island and Monomoy ...

Great Point Light - Ara's Nantucket Tours

In 1770 the Nantucket town fathers (selectmen) appointed a representative to petition the Massachusetts General Court to build a lighthouse on Great Point ...

Great Point Light > United States Coast Guard > Article Listings

Great Point Light (Nantucket Light), Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Tower style lighthouse, first built of wood in 1784, destroyed by fire in 1816, and ...

Great Point Lighthouse

A naturalist guide leads participants on an over-sand vehicle tour through the salt marsh to learn about the geology, ecology, and history of the area.

HistoricalPix.com | Nantucket, Great Point Lighthouse, Photo, 1969

While its historical significance is undeniable, Great Point Light was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 under the name "Nantucket Light ...

Great Point Light - The Historical Marker Database

This is a restoration of Historic Great Point Light destroyed by a raging storm on March 29, 1984. It was situated 800 feet east of this site. (A historical ...

Great Point Lighthouse: A Beacon of History in Nantucket - Evendo

Established in 1784, this historic lighthouse has served as a guiding light for sailors navigating the treacherous waters of the Atlantic. Visitors can marvel ...

Great Point Lighthouse, Nantucket, Massachusetts - LighthouseGuy

The beach overlooking the northern tip of the island was one of the busiest passages on the East coast. The effort to erect a tower for shipping needs was ...

Interesting Places in Nantucket: The Great Point Lighthouse

Great Point Lighthouse was established in 1784 to aid ships in navigating the channel between Cape Cod's Monomoy Island and Nantucket Island's ...

The Changing Shape of the Cape & Islands: Great Point, Nantucket

A second light was built on the same spot in 1818, this one of stone. As years passed, erosion nipped away at the surrounding coastline, and the stone ...

Great Point Lighthouse, the Eldia and the Storm of '84 - CapeCod.com

The original wooden structure at what was then known as Sandy Point was completed in 1785. This was suspiciously destroyed by fire in 1816. A ...

Great Point Lighthouse, Great Point, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

- Significance: One of the oldest and most important lighthouses on the coast. The stone tower of Great Point Light was built in 1818 to ...

Brief History - Grosse Point Lighthouse

Grosse Point Lighthouse was built by the United States Government in 1873 as the lead navigational aid marking the approach to Chicago's harbor. The Lady Elgin ...

Nantucket Lighthouses

Great Point Lighthouse ... At the northernmost point of the island out past Wauwinet, within the Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Reserve, you'll find the most powerful ...

Great Point Lighthouse in Danger of Collapse

Public officials on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, state that the 60-foot-tall Great Point Lighthouse is in danger of collapse.