Wing's Neck Light

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Wing's Neck Light
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Location Pocasset, Massachusetts
Coordinates 41°40′56″N70°39′37″W / 41.68222°N 70.66028°W / 41.68222; -70.66028
Built1849
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NRHP reference No. 87001503 [1]
Added to NRHPJune 15, 1987

The Wing's Neck Light is a historic lighthouse in the Pocasset village of Bourne, Massachusetts. It is located on Wing's Neck Road at the end of Wing's Neck, a peninsula between Pocasset Harbor and the Hog Island Channel, which provides access to the Cape Cod Canal. The first lighthouse was built in the site in 1849; it was a stone keeper's house with a wood-frame tower above, and was destroyed by fire in 1878. [2]

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The present lighthouse and keeper's house were built in 1889; it is the only extant wood-frame light and keeper's house connected by a covered way from that period. [2]

The lighthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1]

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  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. 1 2 "MACRIS inventory record for Wing's Neck Light". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved May 6, 2014.


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