Mono Monday Lighthouses

Good Morning i hope you all had a good weekend

As I tend to do, starting the week with a few mono images, and this week focusing on lighthouses.
I went mostly with Sepia style monos for these, it just seemed to suit them for me

Starting off with the Palmers Island Lighthouse here in New Bedford

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The Palmer Island Lighthouse is a historic structure in New Bedford Harbor that is not open to the public but can be viewed from a distance from the Hurricane barrier wall, or by crossing out to the island, and even approached on foot at low tide.

The 24-foot conical stone lighthouse was constructed in 1849, during the peak of New Bedford's whaling industry, to guide ships into the busy harbor.
The lighthouse was nearly destroyed and the keeper's house was washed away in the historic hurricane of 1938. Lighthouse keeper Arthur Small survived, but his wife, Mabel, perished in an attempt to save him.
The lighthouse was deactivated in 1962 following the completion of the New Bedford Hurricane Barrier. After years of vandalism and neglect, it was restored and relit in 1999 as a city Millennium project and was renovated again in 2014

and next up Neds Point light in Mattapoisett

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The lighthouse was built in 1838 at a cost of approximately $5,000, and was named after Ned Dexter, a local farmer. Supervised by a local builder, Leonard Hammond, the lighthouse was constructed with a birdcage-style lantern similar to Bird Island Light found in Marion, Massachusetts.

All the stone used for the construction of the lighthouse was locally sourced, with most of it originating from nearby beaches.

Inside, Which I didn't get to see, 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. And like other lighthouses I have read up on around here the Whale oil no doubt came from the New Bedford Whaling ships.

The Great Blizzard of 1888 significantly damaged the keeper's stone house, resulting in it being demolished and the building of a wooden replacement.

Following modernization in 1961, the lighthouse was reactivated in 1961 with its current 6-second isophas

And this here is Butler Flats Lighthouse, I thought i had some closer in shot sof it this year, but i guerss I never got out with my big lens this year

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The Butler Flats Lighthouse is located in the outer harbor of New Bedford, Massachusetts, at the mouth of the Acushnet River. The lighthouse is not open to the public, but you can view it from the shore or get a closer look from the water

Built in 1898, the lighthouse is the only known caisson lighthouse designed by a marine architect. The foundation was designed by F. Hopkinson Smith, who also worked on the foundation for the Statue of Liberty

The lighthouse was automated in 1978 and later deemed functionally obsolete. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. After being transferred to the City of New Bedford, it was purchased at auction by a private owner in 2015. It still operates as a private aid to navigation

from what I have read the Texan who bought it had plans back in 2015 to turn it into a bed and breakfast but seems that never came to be

and to finish off a closer in shot of the Palmers island light, complete with an Osprey

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And that’s all folks

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