Great Point Lighthouse, Great Point, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

Significance: One of the oldest and most important lighthouses on the coast. The stone tower of Great Point Light was built in 1818 to mark an offshore rip and bar, replacing a 1784 structure which had burned in 1818. By 1838 the tower was lighted with fourteen lamps and reflectors arranged in two parallel circles, with whale oil used as fuel. In 1857 the tower was fitted with Fresnel lens, later lighted by incandescent oil-vapor apparatus. By 1959 the light was automated, keeper's quarters and outbuildings razed, and operates on an unattended basis.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-211

Survey number: HABS MA-1006

Building/structure dates: 1818 Initial Construction