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Cape Cod Light, also known as Highland Light, at 27 Highland Light Road in North Truro, offers tours. "We did about 18,000 tours last year," Ken Rose, operations manager, said.
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. [5]
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The major features of the district, which is centered on Highland Road east of US Route 6, are the Highland Light Station, the Highland House (now a museum), and the Highland Golf Links, one of the oldest golf courses on Cape Cod. [2] The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. [1]
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 ...
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Fort Hill Rd, Cape Cod National Seashore 41°49′10″N 69°57′56″W / 41.8194°N 69.9656°W / 41.8194; -69.9656 ( Fort Hill Rural Historic Eastham
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