Lighthouse of the Week, June 8-14, 2025: Duxbury Pier, Massachusetts, USA

 

I decided to find a cute lighthouse this week, and I figured a lighthouse nicknamed the "Bug Light" would qualify.  This one is visible from Plymouth, Massachusetts, but it's not easy to visit. However, it's pretty easy to swing a boat by it, if you have one.

So, it's called the Duxbury Pier Lighthouse, and as I noted, it carries the nickname "Bug Light". You might not believe it, but keepers could live there.

This is the location of this cutie. 

There's some interesting information about it, from the Lighthouse Directory, of course. A couple of other websites that include it are below. If you go to the Northern Massachusetts page, you can peruse the links in the entry.

"1871. Active; focal plane 35 ft (10.5 m); 2 red flashes every 5 s. 47 ft (14.5 m) round sparkplug cast iron tower (brick lined) with lantern and upper and lower galleries, incorporating 2-story keeper's quarters and mounted on a concrete caisson; solar-powered 250 mm lens. Fog horn (blast every 15 s). Lower half of lighthouse is red, upper portion white, lantern black. ... The lighthouse is chronically endangered by age and weather. Project Gurnet and Bug Lights worked to restore the tower in the mid-80's and again in the mid 90's. In 2001 Campbell Construction completed a $40,000 restoration and repair project. Lighthouse Digest has D'Entremont's September 2001 feature on restoration efforts here and at the Gurnet (previous entry). In 2009 the Coast Guard agreed to repair the upper gallery handrail and lantern windows; additional repairs and a repainting were carried out in 2010. In May 2014 the lighthouse became available for transfer under NHLPA. Project Gurnet and Bug Lights was approved for ownership in September 2018 and the transfer was finalized a year later on 17 September 2019. Located in Duxbury Bay (not on a pier) on the north side of the entrance channel to Plymouth."

Duxbury Pier, MA  (Lighthouse Friends, with good history)

Duxbury Pier Lighthouse (New England Lighthouses, A Virtual Guide)

Commonly photographed, so there are numerous photographs. I included one of a nice model, too.

Here's the model.