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Sandy Neck Lighthouse
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Photo by Ann-Marie Trapani
Sandy Neck
Lighthouse
Barnstable
Harbor, Massachusetts
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Year Built:
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1857
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Height of Tower:
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40 feet
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Description:
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A white cylindrical, brick tower with black reinforcing
bands.
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Location:
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West side of the entrance to the |
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harbor, at
the tip of the barrier dunes. Reference – New England Lighthouses,
A Virtual Guide web site |
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Coordinates:
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41 43 21 N…70
17 09 W
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Automated:
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1931
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Status:
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Privately owned. The Sandy Neck Lighthouse Restoration
Committee, a chapter of the American Lighthouse Foundation, is working to
restore the lantern atop the lighthouse.
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Light Station
Historical Notes:
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The original
Sandy Neck Lighthouse was built in 1826 at the west side of the entrance
to the harbor, at the tip of the barrier dunes…The first lighthouse was a
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typical Cape Cod
style structure, with a wooden lantern on the roof of a brick keeper's
house. The lantern originally held ten lamps and reflectors 40 feet above
the water, and exhibited a fixed light visible for about nine miles… This
lighthouse was replaced in 1857 by the brick one that still stands. A new
Victorian keeper's house was built in 1880…The 1857 lighthouse was outfitted
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with a fifth order Fresnel lens…In 1887 the brick tower
was badly cracked and was strengthened with two iron hoops and six
staves. This addition, still in place, gives the tower a distinctive
look... In 1931 the lighthouse was decommissioned and its lens was moved
to a steel skeleton tower 200 feet closer to the tip of Sandy Neck. The
light on the skeleton tower was |
U.S. Coast Guard Photo
Sandy Neck Lighthouse
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discontinued in 1952… The lantern was removed from the
lighthouse and the property was sold into private hands… Ken Morton
today manages the Sandy Neck Lighthouse property for his family. He
hopes to have a lantern back on top of the tower in time for its 150th
birthday, for aesthetic reasons as well as to protect the interior from
water damage when it rains or snows.
– (Information courtesy of ALF Historian Jeremy
D'Entremont)
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Sandy Neck Lighthouse
History...
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