Location Chatham, Massachusetts Automated 1982 Tower shape Conical Construction started 1808 | Year first constructed 1808 Foundation Concrete Height 13 m Construction Concrete | |
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Year first lit 1877 (current structure) Address 37 Main St, Chatham, MA 02633, USA Hours Closed today FridayClosedSaturdayClosedSundayClosedMondayClosedTuesdayClosedWednesday1–3:30PMThursdayClosed Similar Nauset Light, Highland Light, Chatham Lighthouse Beach, Stage Harbor Light, Nobska Light | ||
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Chatham Lighthouse, known as Twin Lights prior to 1923, is a lighthouse in Chatham, Massachusetts, near the "elbow" of Cape Cod.
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- In my footsteps cape cod chatham light lighthouse beach
- Chatham light house at dusk
- In popular culture
- References
The station was established in 1808, the second light on Cape Cod. To distinguish it from Highland Light, the first Cape Cod light, and to act as a range, twin octagonal 40-foot (12 m) wooden towers were built. They were on skids so that they could be moved to keep them in line with the entrance channel as it shifted. Samuel Nye was appointed as the first Keeper of the Chatham Lights by President Jefferson on October 7, 1808.
Today, the former keeper's house is an active U.S. Coast Guard station, and on-duty personnel living quarters. Search and Rescue, maritime law enforcement, and Homeland Security missions are carried out here. Flotilla 11-01 of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary operates from this station.
Chatham Light was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Chatham Light Station on June 15, 1987, reference number 87001501.
Chatham light house at dusk
In popular culture
The Chatham Lighthouse is featured in the film The Finest Hours depicting the US Coast Guard’s rescue of the SS Pendleton in 1952 off the coast of Chatham. All four of the Coast Guard crew received the Coast Guard’s Gold Lifesaving Medal.