Location: Chappaquiddick Island
Nearest town: Edgartown
41 25 10 N
70 27 08 W
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Accessibility: A 1 1/4 hour tour is available through
the Trustees of Reservations. Reservations are required.
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here for more information
The lighthouse may be open to the public periodically
in summer to those with their own four-wheel drive vehicles.
Check at the gatehouses for availablility.
Station established: 1802; Current lighthouse tower
built: 1893; Automated: 1943
Construction material: Wood
Tower height: 35 feet; Height of focal plane: 65 feet
Earlier optic: Fourth-order Fresnel (1857); Current
optic: 300 mm
Characteristic: Flashing white every six seconds
Other buildings still standing: None
Active U.S. Coast Guard aid to navigation; property
managed by
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