Ten Pound Island Light

Ten Pound Island Light
The 1821 lighthouse
Location Gloucester, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°36′6.7″N 70°39′56″W / 42.601861°N 70.66556°W / 42.601861; -70.66556Coordinates: 42°36′6.7″N 70°39′56″W / 42.601861°N 70.66556°W / 42.601861; -70.66556
Year first constructed 1821
Year first lit 1881
Automated 1934
Deactivated 1956 - 1989
Foundation Brick
Construction Stone and cast iron
Tower shape Conical tower
Markings / pattern White with black lantern
Height 39 feet (12 m)
Focal height 57 feet (17 m)
Original lens 5th order Fresnel lens
Current lens 9.8 inches (250 mm) lens
Range 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi)
Characteristic Isophase Red 6 seconds
Fog signal Original: Bell
Now: Horn: 2 every 20 seconds
Admiralty number J0284
ARLHS number USA-839
USCG number

1-9895[1][2][3]

Ten Pound Island Light
Built 1881
MPS Lighthouses of Massachusetts TR
NRHP reference # 88001179[4]
Added to NRHP August 4, 1988
Heritage place listed on the National Register of Historic Places Edit this on Wikidata

The Ten Pound Island Light is a historic lighthouse in Gloucester Harbor in Gloucester, Massachusetts. It is located on Ten Pound Island, near the eastern end of the harbor. The tower, built in 1881, is a conical cast iron structure 30 feet (9.1 m) tall, replacing a stone tower first built on the site in 1821. The main body is painted white, and the top is painted black.

The tower is the only surviving part of a more extensive light station, which included a keeper's house and an oil house. The island additionally hosted a federal fish hatchery and a Coast Guard air (seaplane) station; only ruins survive.[5]

The lighthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Both Winslow Homer and Fitz Henry Lane painted the first tower.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Light List, Volume I, Atlantic Coast, St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2012. p. 84.
  2. 1 2 "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Massachusetts". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
  3. ↑ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Northern Massachusetts". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  4. ↑ National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  5. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Ten Pound Island Light". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-12-23.


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