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in 1914, most vessels bound from south of the Cape to the Boston area took the shorter and safer route through the canal, so there was much less traffic past the light and the light was deactivated in 1923.
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The station was established in 1823. The first light was a wood tower and brick lantern room on top of the keeper's house. The current tower, one of the first made of
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Monomoy Point Light Station, Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, Chatham, Barnstable County, MA
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The keeper's house is preserved and serves today as a guest house. The
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Monomoy Island
Coordinates
41°33′33.6″N 69°59′37.4″W / 41.559333°N 69.993722°W / 41.559333; -69.993722
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Fresnel Lens
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Chatham, Massachusetts
MPS
79000324
Chatham, Massachusetts
cast iron
Cape Cod Canal
National Register of Historic Places
Lighthouse Preservation Society
Massachusetts Audubon Society
Monomoy Wilderness
National Register of Historic Places listings in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
"Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Massachusetts"
the original
"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service
"Lighthouses of the United States: Southeast Massachusetts"
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Monomoy Point Light

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