Dumpling Rocks Light
Dumpling Rock Light
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US Coast Guard photo of the 1889 structure |
Location |
Dumpling Rock, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts |
Coordinates |
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Year first constructed |
1829 (first tower) |
Year first lit |
1889 (last tower) |
Automated |
1942 |
Deactivated |
1942 replaced by skeleton tower (below) |
Tower shape |
Square wood tower attached to house |
Markings / pattern |
Black lantern on white tower and house |
Original lens |
Fourth and fifth order Fresnel lens |
Characteristic |
F W with R sector |
Fog signal |
Second class Daboli trumpet, 1 every 15s
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Dumpling Rocks Light is a light on a skeleton tower on Dumpling Rock, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. It replaced the wooden Dumpling Rock Light, built 1889, which in turn replaced the original stone lighthouse established in 1829.
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