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Nauset Light, officially Nauset Beach Light, [2] is a restored lighthouse on the Cape Cod National Seashore near Eastham, Massachusetts, erected in 1923 using the 1877 tower that was moved here from the Chatham Light. [2][3][4] It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The tower is a cast-iron plate shell lined with brick and ...
Cleveland East Ledge Light is a historic lighthouse in Falmouth, Massachusetts. It sits on a man-made island in shallow water on the eastern of the two halves of Cleveland Ledge, which is said to have been named for President Grover Cleveland because he owned the nearby Gray Gables estate and used to fish in the area. [2][3][4] It marks the ...
Chatham Light. Chatham Lighthouse, known as Twin Lights prior to 1923, is a lighthouse in Chatham, Massachusetts, near the "elbow" of Cape Cod. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] The original station, close to the shore, was built in 1808 with two wooden towers, which were both replaced in 1841. In 1877, two new towers, made of cast iron rings, replaced those.
The CG-1432 crash was a United States Coast Guard aviation accident which involved five crewmembers aboard a helicopter responding to a distress call from the Japanese fishing vessel Kaisei Maru #18. On the morning of February 18, 1979, Kaisei Maru #18 sent a distress call. [2] The call indicated that a 47-year-old crewmember was in distress ...
June 15, 1987. Race Point Light is a historic lighthouse on Cape Cod, in Provincetown, Massachusetts; it is on the National Register of Historic Places. The original tower, first illuminated in 1816, was replaced in 1876 with the current 45-foot tall iron-plated tower and a new keeper's dwelling. The American Lighthouse Foundation operates the ...
Wellfleet. Expansion of an earlier listing of the Thomas Atwood House. 3. Fort Hill Rural Historic District. Fort Hill Rural Historic District. April 5, 2001. ( #00001656) Fort Hill Rd, Cape Cod National Seashore. 41°49′10″N 69°57′56″W.
The first set of lighthouses were commissioned by Congress in 1837 and built for $10,000, to provide for a light halfway along the eastern coast of Cape Cod. Because there was one light (the Cape Cod Light) in Truro, and two lights (the Twin Lights) in Chatham, it was decided that there should be three lights to distinguish between the other ...
November 22, 2011. The Highland Light (previously known as Cape Cod Light) is an active lighthouse on the Cape Cod National Seashore in North Truro, Massachusetts. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] The current tower was erected in 1857, replacing two earlier towers that had been built in 1797 and 1831. It is the oldest and tallest lighthouse on Cape Cod.