I expect that you would expect that Massachusetts, especially the Cape Cod area, has a few lighthouses. And it does. I've featured a few, such as the Nauset Lighthouse. But when I looked back at the area and explored a bit, I found one that I didn't expect to find.
The one I found is the Monomoy Point Lighthouse, an inactive lighthouse, but an easy one to see if you go around the southeastern end of Cape Cod. It's out on a little sandy beach island, which fortunately has been accreting sand, so it's not going to fall into the ocean anytime soon, probably. The little islands are a national wildlife refuge.
This is where it is. That map is zoomed out far enough to see where Cape Cod is, too. Most of it, anyway.
Below are some informational excerpts from the Lighthouse Directory. It's actually a long entry, on this page of the directory, discussing preservation and renovation and such. I stuck with the basics.
"1849 (station established 1823). Inactive since 1923; charted as a landmark. 47 ft (14 m) round cylindrical cast iron tower with lantern and gallery, painted red; lantern and gallery painted black. The original 2-story wood keeper's house is used as a guest house. Brick oil house (1894) and generator building. ... This early cast iron tower has a unique design. ... The beach has built up in the area so that the lighthouse, built at the dune line, is now 1/2 mile (800 m) from the ocean. In October 2009 $1.5 million in federal recovery act funding was allocated to restoration of the lighthouse; this was enough to restore the lighthouse and the exterior of the keeper's house and add solar and wind generators to provide power for the buildings."
Another page about it: Monomoy Point Lighthouse (New England Lighthouses)
So, some pictures are below, and a video, which even shows the restoration.
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