Palmer Island Light

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Palmer Island Light
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Palmer Island Light, in 2013
Palmer Island Light
Location New Bedford, Massachusetts
Coordinates 41°37′37″N70°54′33″W / 41.62694°N 70.90917°W / 41.62694; -70.90917 Coordinates: 41°37′37″N70°54′33″W / 41.62694°N 70.90917°W / 41.62694; -70.90917
Constructed1849
Constructionstone  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Tower height7 m (23 ft)  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Tower shapeConical rubble tower
MarkingsWhite
HeritageNational Register of Historic Places listed place  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
First lit1999  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Automated1941  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Deactivated1962, reactivated as a private aid (1999)
Focal height13 m (43 ft)  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
LensFifth order Fresnel lens
Characteristic Fl W 8s
Fog signal Original: Bell
Current: none
Admiralty no.J0501  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
ARLHS no.USA578  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
USCG no.1-16898  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Palmer Island Light Station
ArchitectCharles M. Pierce
MPS Lighthouses of Massachusetts TR (AD)
NRHP reference No. 80000433 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 26, 1980

Palmer Island Light Station is a historic lighthouse in New Bedford Harbor in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. [2] [3] The lighthouse was built in 1849 out of stone rubble. It was discontinued when the harbor's hurricane barrier was built in the early 1960s, as its location immediately north of the barrier was no longer an outlying danger and there are lights on either side of the barrier opening.

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From 1888 until 1891 it served, with Fairhaven Bridge Light, as a range light to guide vessels past Butler Flats, a rocky shoal on the west side of the entrance channel.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Palmer Island Light Station on March 26, 1980. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. 1 2 "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Massachusetts". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. 2009-09-01. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
  3. 1 2 United States Coast Guard (2009). Light List, Volume I, Atlantic Coast, St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey. p. 152.

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