As promised in the just-posted previous post, this week's Lighthouse of the Week is the Edgartown Lighthouse on Martha's Vineyard.
If you want to see where Edgartown and Lighthouse Beach are on Martha's Vineyard, click right here.
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The interesting thing about this lighthouse is that it looks like it's sitting on a concrete pad right on Lighthouse Beach. Let's see if that's true or not.
Here's a little more about it: Martha's Vineyard Museum - Edgartown Lighthouse
No history or specifications there, though, so I went to Lighthouse Friends. And from the article there, I found out the very interesting fact that the current Edgartown Lighthouse is not the one that was there for many decades. The original building, which was there from at least 1828, was torn down in 1939 after it was damaged during the Great Hurricane of 1938. To replace it, they took a defunct lighthouse from Ipswich, MA and relocated it on the beach at Edgartown.
Neat, huh?
It's been restored and refurbished since, and the public can visit and go inside. It also has a children's memorial.
As for specifications, it's 45 feet high and it's mostly white. Location, location, location.
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