Bishop_and_Clerks_Light

Bishop and Clerks Light

Bishop and Clerks Light

Lighthouse in Massachusetts, United States

Bishop and Clerks Light is a lighthouse located in open water on Bishop and Clerks Rocks, about two nautical miles south of Point Gammon in Hyannis, Massachusetts, United States.[3][1]

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The light was established in a granite tower in 1858.[4] It was automated in 1923, deactivated five years later and demolished in 1952.[5][6] It was replaced with a white 30-foot pyramidal day beacon.[7][8] The day beacon was replaced with a round, orange and white 30-foot tower placed on top of the original Bishop & Clerk's granite base in 1998.[9][1][10]

References

  1. [1]
    Rowlett, Russ (2009-12-14). "Lighthouses of the United States: Southeast Massachusetts". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  2. [2]
    "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Massachusetts". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
  3. [3]
    Light List, Volume I, Atlantic Coast, St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2010. p. 128.
  4. [4]
    Elinor De Wire (2008). The Field Guide to Lighthouses of the New England Coast: 150 Destinations in Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. Voyageur Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-61060-525-0.
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    Edward Rowe Snow (2005). The Lighthouses of New England. Applewood Books. p. 315. ISBN 978-1-933212-20-3.
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    Tim Harrison; Ray Jones (1999). Lost Lighthouses: Stories and Images of America's Vanished Lighthouses. Globe Pequot Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-7627-0443-9.
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    "Bishop and Clerks Light history".
  8. [8]
    "Bishops and Clerks Lighthouse". Archived from the original on 2016-05-01. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
  9. [9]
    Crocker, Dave (June 29, 2012). "The little lighthouse that is no more". Barnstable Patriot. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015.
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    "Bishop and Clerks Lighthouse".
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