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Borden Flats Light is a historic lighthouse on the Taunton River in Fall River, Massachusetts, US. [1] [4] [5] It is a tower-on-caisson type known as a sparkplug lighthouse.The light was built in 1881, and added to the National Register of Historic Places as Borden Flats Light Station on June 15, 1987, reference number 87001528.
This is a list of all lighthouses in the U.S. state of Massachusetts as identified by the United States Coast Guard.Enumeration of the lighthouses in this state is complicated by the number of multiple tower stations and replacement of older towers, with the Brant Point Light station having had nine towers, two of which survive. [1]
English: The Borden Flats Light is a historic lighthouse on the Taunton River in Fall River, Massachusetts. It is a tower-on-caisson type known as a sparkplug lighthouse. The light was built in 1881, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
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By 1890, however, the three lights were dangerously close to the cliff's edge. Since it was impossible at the time to move the three lights intact, three 22-foot (6.7 m) wooden lighthouses with otherwise identical markings were built in 1892 to replace the former lights, each built 30 feet (9.1 m) west of their original sites and using the lenses from the originals.
Wooden pilings beneath Hudson-Athens Lighthouse are deteriorating, and the structure, built in the middle of the river when steamboats still plied the water, is beginning to shift. While there are ...
Butler Flats Light is a sparkplug lighthouse located in the outer harbor of New Bedford, Massachusetts, at the mouth of the Acushnet River. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Built in 1898 by the United States Lighthouse Board , it is the only known caisson lighthouse designed by a marine architect.
Mount Hope Bay is part of the Narragansett Basin, formed as a rift in the Avalon terrane. It is underlaid by sedimentary rocks estimated to be several miles thick. [1] The bay covers an area of about 13 square miles (36 square km), with an average depth of 18.7 feet, [2] although portions of the southern end of the bay are as deep as 74 feet near the Mount Hope Bridge.