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Wood End Light
Tower
US Coast Guard photo, not dated.

Location	Provincetown, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°1′16.4″N 70°11′36.6″W / 42.021222°N 70.193500°W / 42.021222; -70.193500
Constructed	1864 (lookout station) 1872 (lighthouse built)
Foundation	Concrete
Construction	Brick
Automated	1961
Height	39 feet (12 m)
Shape	Square, pyramidal
Markings	White with black lantern (originally painted brown)
Heritage	National Register of Historic Places listed place
Fog signal	Horn:one 3-second blast every 30 seconds Previous (1902): 1,000 lb (450 kg) fog bell

Light
First lit	1872
Focal height	45 feet (14 m) above mean sea level
Lens	Fifth-order Fresnel lens (original), VRB-25 (current)
Range	13 nautical miles (24 km; 15 mi)
Characteristic	Fl Red 10s (Red flash every 10 seconds)



Wood End Light Lookout Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

MPS	Lighthouses of Massachusetts TR
NRHP reference No.	87001504
Added to NRHP	June 15, 1987

Wood End Light Lookout Station is a historic lighthouse, located at the southwest end of Long Point in Provincetown, Massachusetts. It is located at Wood End, near the southernmost extent of the Provincetown Spit, and acts as a navigational aid to vessels on their approach to Provincetown Harbor. The Long Point Light Station, further down the peninsula at the tip of Long Point is an identical design and completed in 1875, three years after Wood End Light.

The light was first illuminated on November 20, 1872, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. In 1981, Wood End Light became the first Massachusetts lighthouse to be converted to use solar energy to power the light and fog signal equipment.

In 1896 a wooden keeper's house was built, as well as a storage shed and oil house. With the changing times and no need to man the light station, it was decided in 1961 to raze the buildings leaving just the tower and oil house.

Notes

Fog signal is radio activated, during times of reduced visibility, turn marine VHF-FM radio to channel 83A/157.175Mhz. Key microphone 5 times consecutively, to activate fog signal for 45 minutes.

References

^ "Wood End Light Lookout Station". Maritime History of Massachusetts, a National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary. National Park Service. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
^ Light List, Volume I, Atlantic Coast, St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2019. p. 119.
"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
Rowlett, Russ (2010-03-10). "Lighthouses of the United States: Southeast Massachusetts". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Massachusetts". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
"Lighthouses of Massachusetts - Thematic Group Nomination (National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form)" (PDF). National Park Service. 4 May 1987. p. Item 7, Page 5. Retrieved 6 November 2014.

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