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Plymouth Light, Gurnet Point, Plymouth, Plymouth County, MA
Summary
Significance: Plymouth Light, built in 1843, is significant as the oldest timber-framed lighthouse in the United States. It is located on the Gurnet, a strategic coastal location that has been the site of fortifications manned during the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, and World War II, and was also the site of a U.S. Coast Guard life saving station.
Survey number: HAER MA-148
Building/structure dates: 1843 Initial Construction
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
U.S. Coast Guard Civil Engineering Unit
Warren Jagger Photography, Inc., contractor
Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc., contractor
Dyer, Delores, transmitter
Brewster, Robert, photographer
Kierstead, Matthew A, historian
Location
Plymouth (Mass.), 42.00510, -70.59948
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
