Lighthouses

Good Morning to all who venture to read this post, have a great day

As many who follow me know I do love walks by the water, especially on beaches as the sunrises, but another thing I love seeing which is also near the water are lighthouses and that's what my focus will be on for this post

New England has plenty of lighthouses and I hope sometime to go and explore and find more of them, but for this post I will share images of three lighthouses in and close to me here in New Bedford

Starting with the Butler Flats lighthouse, Easily visible from East beach where i took this first photo on one morning when we had such a glorious warm sunrise

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And a closer in shot of the same lighthouse

Butler Flats Light is a sparkplug lighthouse located in the outer harbor of New Bedford, Massachusetts, at the mouth of the Acushnet River. Built in 1898 by the United States Lighthouse Board, it is the only known caisson lighthouse designed by a marine architect.

It is now owned and supported by the City of New Bedford as a private navigation light

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Next up we have Neds Point Light in Mattapoisette a short drive from where I live.

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Source
Ned Point Light is a historic lighthouse on Ned's Point Road in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts.[4][5][6] The lighthouse was built in 1838 at a cost of approximately $5,000, and named after Ned Dexter, a local farmer. Under the supervision of a local builder, Leonard Hammond, the lighthouse was constructed with a birdcage-style lantern similar to Bird Island Light found in Marion, Massachusetts. The stone used for the lighthouse was all locally sourced, with most of it originating from nearby beaches. Inside, there are 32 granite steps that are cantilevered to the outside wall without the use of mortar. The original lantern used 11 whale oil lamps, each with its own parabolic reflector. The lamps and reflectors were replaced by a fifth order Fresnel lens in 1857, along with a change to an octagonal lantern. The Great Blizzard of 1888 significantly damaged the keeper's stone house, resulting in it being demolished and the building of a wooden replacement.

The original Ned Point Light in Massachusetts, showing its original bird-cage lantern and keeper's house
Following the lighthouse's automation in 1923, the keeper's house became unnecessary. The original stone keeper's house was loaded on a barge and taken to Wing's Neck Light in Bourne, Massachusetts. The lighthouse was deactivated from 1952, but remained under control of the US Coast Guard. Following modernization in 1961, the lighthouse was reactivated in 1961 with its current 6-second isophase. The lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and approved in 1988

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And the last one I am sharing is the Palmers Island lighthouse
I edited this one in Mono as in color it was hard to see the detail and the Osprey sitting on the rail

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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, but it is also included in the National Registry of Historic places