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The Wood Brothers, John C. Wood and Robert B. Wood, were contracted to build the lights at Price’s Creek, and were paid a sum of $5,660 for the job. [5] In 1849, a two-story, brick lightkeeper's house with a wooden lantern was built as one of the lights.
The lightkeeper's home was a small 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story home built on the opposite side of a marsh, several hundred feet away from the tower. [5] Another brick structure was built to house the oil. [5] The total cost of the wooden lighthouse, and likely the accompanying keeper's house and oil house, was listed at $4604.69. [6]
The lighthouse also lined up perfectly with the Chatham Twin Lights, making an effective range for Chatham Roads, the deep water channel crossing Nantucket Sound (known as Vineyard Sound before 1920) from south of Bishop & Clerks Reef off Point Gammon at Hyannis to the staging area. The original light is now a private residence.
Goat Island Light is a lighthouse located off Cape Porpoise near Kennebunkport in southern Maine. [2] [3] [4] Goat Island Light was established in 1835 to guard the entrance to Cape Porpoise Harbor. The original station was upgraded in 1859 to the current brick tower with a fifth order Fresnel lens. Keeper's quarters were added to the island in ...
The Gay Head Lighthouse Committee worked in conjunction with the town of Aquinnah and the Martha's Vineyard island community to raise approximately $3.5 million to relocate the lighthouse about 129 feet (39 m) from its former location. The lighthouse was relocated by Expert House Movers and the General Contractor, International Chimney. [25]
Wood was either used for construction on the exterior or in combination with masonry and/or iron to build components of the lighthouse (ex. stairs). The largest cause for deterioration of wood in lighthouses is from exposure to moisture. This exposure is normally the result of direct and prolonged exposure to damp conditions.
The lighthouse protects ships in the Long Island Sound from running up against the rocks. [1] The lighthouse is located on the northeasterly side of Fort Schuyler, southeasterly end of Throgs Neck and on the northerly side of the entrance from Long Island Sound into the East River. Tower Shape / Markings / Pattern: White, square, pyramidal,
The first lighthouse built at this location was a small, square wooden structure erected in 1872, after the U.S. Congress, appropriated $4,000 to the project. This was in large part due to Senator Thomas Ferry's influence. [3] In 1880 the lighthouse service installed a new light atop a metal pole in a protective cage.