Sakonnet Light

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Sakonnet Light Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city:	Little Compton, Rhode Island
Coordinates:	41°27′11″N 71°12′11″W / 41.45306, -71.20306Coordinates: 41°27′11″N 71°12′11″W / 41.45306, -71.20306
Built/Founded:	1883
Architect:	Unknown
Architectural style(s):	No Style Listed
Added to NRHP:	February 10, 1983
NRHP Reference#:	83000179 [1]
MPS:	Lighthouses of Rhode Island TR (AD)
Governing body:	Private

Sakonnet Light (Sakonnet Lighthouse), built in 1884, is a lighthouse in Rhode Island.

The light was built in 1884 near Sakonnet Point in Little Compton, Rhode Island on the eastern side of the state. The light was deactivated in 1954 after Hurricane Carol and was going to be destroyed, but local citizens protested, and eventually Carl and Carolyn Haffenreffer bought the lighthouse in 1961. The Friends of Sakonnet Point acquired the lighthouse in 1985 and it was reactivated by the Coast Guard in 1997. The lighthouse is now listed on the National Historic Register.

[edit] References and links

• Lighthouse pics and info
• America's Atlantic Coast Lighthouse, Kenneth Kochel, 1996.
• Northeast Lights: Lighthouses and Lightships, Rhode Island to Cape May, New Jersey, Robert Bachand, 1989.

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