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The Old Harbor U.S. Life Saving Station is a historic maritime rescue station and museum, located at Race Point Beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Built in 1897, it was originally located at Nauset Beach near the entrance to Chatham Harbor in Chatham, Massachusetts. It was used by the United States Life-Saving Service (USLSS), and then by ...
Old Harbor Life Saving Station U.S. Life-Saving Service 1848–1915: Old Harbor Life Saving Station: NRHP 75000159: August 18, 1975 Rockland Maine Maine Lighthouse Museum: U.S. Lighthouse Service 1789–1939: Maine Lighthouse Museum No N/A N/A Also: Buoy Park Rockport Massachusetts Cape Ann Light Station: U.S. Lighthouse Service 1789–1939
A $6.8 million project has created the Wood Island Museum at the old life-saving station that once faced ... When the Coast Guard relocated its Portsmouth Harbor operations to the current site in ...
The Ocean City Life-Saving Station (also known as U.S. Life Saving Station 30 and U.S. Coast Guard Station No. 126) is the only life-saving station of its design in New Jersey still in existence. Designed by architect James Lake Parkinson in a Carpenter Gothic style, the building is one of 25 stations built of the 1882 life-saving type.
United States Life-Saving Service. The United States Life-Saving Service[1] was a United States government agency that grew out of private and local humanitarian efforts to save the lives of shipwrecked mariners and passengers. It began in 1848 and ultimately merged with the Revenue Cutter Service to form the United States Coast Guard in 1915.
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Old Harbor U.S. Life Saving Station: Old Harbor U.S. Life Saving Station. August 18, 1975 : Race Point Beach Provincetown: Originally located at Nauset Beach in ...
The Half Way House is a historic shelter for shipwrecked mariners on Andrew Harding Lane in Chatham, Massachusetts. This small shed-like structure was probably built in the late 19th century, and originally stood opposite the Old Harbor U.S. Life Saving Station. It may have been one of a number of such shelters erected by the Massachusetts ...