Baughan's Northeast Guide to

Lighthouses on the Massachusetts coast,
Oak Bluffs through Woods Hole

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East Chop (Telegraph Hill) Light - Black and white photo of lighthouse established in 1828 and still operational.

East Chop (Telegraph Hill) Light - Photo plus information on lighthouse located on the Vineyard Haven Entrance/Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

Plymouth

Plymouth (Gurnet) Light - Black and white aerial photograph showing single tower.

Plymouth Light - Photo plus information on lighthouse located on Gurnet Point at the entrance to Plymouth Bay, and is also known as Gurnet Light.

Plymouth Light - History, photos plus descriptive information on lighthouse which was pierced by a British cannonball during the American Revolution.

Rockport

Cape Ann Twin Lights - Photo plus information on the last of the Colonial lighthouses.

Straitsmouth Island Light - Black and white photograph showing 1835 tower.

Straitsmouth Island Light - Contemporary color photograph.

Straitsmouth Island Light - Black and white photograph showing 1896 tower.

Straitsmouth Island Light - History, photos plus descriptive information on lighthouse which is now part of the Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary.

Straitsmouth Island Light - Photo plus information on lighthouse located on Straightsmouth Island, near Rockport, Massachusetts.

Straitsmouth Island Light - Photo plus information on lighthouse located at the entrance to Rockport Harbor.

Thacher Island Association - Nonprofit organization for historic preservation and restoration of the structures on the island. 

Thacher Island Lights - Description and color photo of both lights, with links to photos of the north tower and south tower.

Thacher Island, South Tower - Large color photograph of the south tower and keeper's house on Thacher Island.

Thacher Island Twin Lights - History, photos plus descriptive information on the first lighthouses to be built to mark a dangerous spot rather than a harbor entrance.

Salem

Bakers Island Light - Photo plus information on lighthouse on lighthouse located on Bakers Island in Salem Harbor Approach, near Salem, Massachusetts.

Bakers Island Light - Black and white photo taken c. 1925, showing two towers.

Bakers Island Light - Aerial black and white photo taken in the late 1940's.

Bakers Island Light - Photo plus information on lighthouse which is located on an isolated island at the entrance to Salem Harbor.

Derby Wharf Light - Large color photo with brief description.

Derby Wharf Light - History, photos plus descriptive information on lighthouse established in 1871.

Derby Wharf Light - Black and white photo, from the U.S. Coast Guard.

Fort Pickering Light - History, photos plus descriptive information on lighthouse also known as Winter Island Light.

Fort Pickering (Winter Island) Light - Black and white photo of station established in 1871 and still operational.

Fort Pickering (Winter Island) Light - Photo plus information on lighthouse located on Winter Island in Salem Harbor, near Salem, Massachusetts.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site - Color photo plus brief overview of Derby Wharf Light.

Scituate

Minot's Ledge Light - Black and white photograph, provided by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Minot's Ledge Light - Large color photo with brief description.

Minot's Ledge Light - History, photos plus descriptive information on lighthouse which is located off the southeastern chop of Boston Bay.

Minots Ledge Light - Black and white photo showing the 1860 tower, from the U.S. Coast Guard.

Minots Ledge Light - Black and white illustration showing the 1850 tower, from the U.S. Coast Guard.

Minots Ledge Light - Photo plus information on lighthouse located on Cohasset Rocks, near Scituate, Massachusetts.

Minots Ledge Light - Photo plus information on lighthouse originally built in 1850.

Scituate Light - History, photos plus descriptive information on lighthouse which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Scituate Light - Contemporary color photograph.

Scituate Light - Photo plus information on lighthouse located at Cedar Point.

Scituate Light - Black and white photograph, from the U.S. Coast Guard.

Scituate Light - Large color photo with brief description.

Scituate Light - Photo plus information on lighthouse located at Cedar Point in Scituate Harbor, near Scituate, Massachusetts.

Tisbury

West Chop Light - Photo plus information on lighthouse located on West Chop Road, in Tisbury.

West Chop Light - Black and white photograph showing 1847 tower.

West Chop Light - History, photos plus descriptive information on lighthouse which was once called Holmes Hole Light.

West Chop Light - Large color photo and brief description.

West Chop Light - Photo plus information on lighthouse which sits on the west side of the entrance to Vineyard Haven Harbor.

Truro

Cape Cod (Highland) Light - Photo plus information on lighthouse located on the east shore of the Cape, near North Truro, Massachusetts.

Highland (Cape Cod) Light - History, photos plus descriptive information on lighthouse which was the first in the nation to have a flashing light.

Highland (Cape Cod) Light - Color photographs, history and directions on how to reach the lighthouse by land.

Highland Light - Brief description with large color photograph.

Highland Light - Reprint of text from 1865 book on Cape Cod, by Henry David Thoreau.

Pamet Lighthouse - Historical overview and driving directions to site of lighthouse of which little is known and no longer exists.

Wellfleet

Billingsgate Light - Black and white photo, from the U.S. Coast Guard.

Billingsgate Light - History of the lighthouse located on a shoal known as Billingsgate Island.

Mayo Beach Keeper's House - Color photographs, history and directions on how to reach the lighthouse site by land.

Mayo Beach Light - Black and white photo from the U.S. Coast Guard.

Woods Hole

Nobska (Point) Light - History, photos plus descriptive information on lighthouse located between the division between Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound.

Nobska Point Light - Large color photo and brief description.

Nobska Point Light - Photo plus information on lighthouse located at the Woods Hole Harbor Entrance.

Nobska Point Light - Photo plus information on lighthouse which was built in 1876 and automated in 1985.

Nobska Point Light - Black and white photograph showing 1829 tower.

Nobska Point Light - Contemporary color photograph.

Nobska Point Light - Black and white photograph showing 1876 tower.
    

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