Palmers Island Lighthouse

On my Wednesday Walk post I mentioned heading out onto Palmers Island to see if I could sight and get some shots of any Osprey, it was also a chance to get some ew shots of the Palmers Island lighthouse from a different perspective and that's what I will be sharing in this post.
Starting with a shot closer to the lighthouse when I walked around the Island to get to this point.

I had been to the Island once before with my wife, but we didn't realize at the time that you could walk around the edge of the Island to get to this point

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I wanted to start with the closer in shot of the lighthouse so now backtracking to earlier on my walk and a spot on the island with the lighthouse in view

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Now a little about the lighthouse, it was built on the northern point of the island for $1,951 by Charles M. Pierce, a mason.
Can you imagine how much it would cost to build something similar these days

Now I mentioned the island which is Palmers Island which I will share a shot of in a future post and talk about for this post I am focusing on the Lighthouse.

It was first lighted on August 30, 1849, by William Sherman who was the keeper. The 24-foot tower was built of rubblestone, with wooden windows and floors.

As with many lighthouses in that era the lamps were fueled by New Bedford whale oil
Over the years the lighthouse suffered from vandalism, but was eventually bought by the City of New Bedford and they restored it including relighting it in 1999

Another spot on the island a little closer to the lighthouse

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As you can see the lighthouse still remains but some other buildings buildings including a keeper's dwelling and an enclosed walkway (1849), a fog signal building (1900) and an oil house (1905) were destroyed by the Hurricane of 1938., which in part led to building the Hurricane barrier wall which was built in 1963

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