Cape Ann Light

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Twin Lights Historic District--Cape Ann Light Station
(U.S. National Historic Landmark District)
Nearest city: Rockport, Massachusetts
Built/Founded: 1860
Architect: Unknown
Architectural style(s): No Style Listed
Added to NRHP: October 07, 1971
NRHP Reference#: 71000355

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MPS: Lighthouses of Massachusetts TR (AD)
Governing body: FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE

Twin Lights Historic District-Cape Ann Light Station (or Thatcher's Island Twin Lights; Cape Anne Light Station) is a National Historic Landmark District around the Cape Ann lighthouse in Rockport, Massachusetts.

The station was the last lighthouse founded during colonial times and the first to "mark a navigational hazard rather than a harbor entrance." [2] The current lighthouse was built in 1860 and was added to the National Historic Register in 1971.[1]


[edit] References

  1. ^ a b National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2008-04-15).
  2. ^ NHL site information
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