Palmer Island Light

Palmers Island Light

Palmer Island Light, in 2013
Location New Bedford, Massachusetts
Coordinates 41°37′37″N 70°54′33″W / 41.62694°N 70.90917°W / 41.62694; -70.90917Coordinates: 41°37′37″N 70°54′33″W / 41.62694°N 70.90917°W / 41.62694; -70.90917
Year first constructed 1849
Automated 1941
Deactivated 1962, reactivated as a private aid
Tower shape Conical rubble tower
Markings / pattern White
Original lens Fifth order Fresnel lens
Characteristic Fl W 4s
Fog signal Original: Bell
Current: none
USCG number

1-16898[1][2]

Palmer Island Light Station
Architect Charles M. Pierce
MPS Lighthouses of Massachusetts TR (AD)
NRHP Reference #

80000433

[3]
Added to NRHP March 26, 1980

Palmer Island Light Station is a historic lighthouse in New Bedford Harbor in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. 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.

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.[3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Massachusetts". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. 2009-09-01.
  2. 1 2 United States Coast Guard (2009). Light List, Volume I, Atlantic Coast, St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey. p. 152.
  3. 1 2 3 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.


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