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Palmer Island Light Station is a historic lighthouse in New Bedford Harbor in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA.[2][3] The lighthouse was built in 1849 out of stone rubble. It was discontinued when the harbor's hurricane barrier was built in the early 1960s, as its location immediately north of the barrier was no longer an outlying danger and there are lights on either side of the barrier opening.

Palmer Island Light

Palmer Island Light, in 2013
Location	New Bedford, Massachusetts
Coordinates	41°37′37″N 70°54′33″W
Tower
Constructed	1849
Construction	stone
Automated	1941
Height	7 m (23 ft)
Shape	Conical rubble tower
Markings	White
Heritage	National Register of Historic Places listed place
Fog signal	Original: Bell Current: none
Light
First lit	1999
Deactivated	1962, reactivated as a private aid (1999)
Focal height	13 m (43 ft)
Lens	Fifth order Fresnel lens
Characteristic	Fl W 8s
Palmer Island Light Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Architect	Charles M. Pierce
MPS	Lighthouses of Massachusetts TR (AD)
NRHP reference No.	80000433 [1]
Added to NRHP	March 26, 1980

From 1888 until 1891 it served, with Fairhaven Bridge Light, as a range light to guide vessels past Butler Flats, a rocky shoal on the west side of the entrance channel.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Palmer Island Light Station on March 26, 1980.[1]

Nomenclature

• The USCG historical web site[2] calls it "Palmer Island Light"
• The current USCG Light List[3] calls it "Palmers Island Light"
• The National Register of Historic Places[1] calls it "Palmer Island Light Station"

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in New Bedford, Massachusetts

References

External links

Media related to Palmer Island Light at Wikimedia Commons

• D'Entremont, Jeremy (2014). "History of Palmers Island Light, New Bedford, Massachusetts". New England Lighthouses: A Virtual Guide.
• Penberthy, Brian (2014). "Palmer Island Lighthouse: New Bedford, Massachusetts - 1849". US Lighthouses.com.

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