The Palmers Island Lighthouse

As I have shown and mentioned in a few posts I do a lot of walks on the Harbor walk here in New Bedford and most of the shots focus on the Main harbor walk with the paved walkway, but I often walk out the other way to where the Hurricane Barrier finished on the New Bedford side, with a small opening for boats to pass before the Fairhaven Barrier all starts.
On this part of the walk you can see the Palmers Island Lighthouse which will be the focus of this post.

Here it is, with a catamaran anchored in front of it Which made me think of @rossfletcher who recently shares some shots of a catamaran he saw

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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.

Seeing how old it is I thought a couple of Mono shots were appropriate.

As with many lighthouses in that era the lamps were fueled by New Bedford whale oil

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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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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

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Whenever I see a lighthouse I think of them as a beacon of light, and see them as a reminder that in our lifes we should strive to be a beacon of light to those around us, especially in the dark times around the world these days

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And that’s all folks

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