Monomoy Point Light
Monomoy Point Light is a historic and no longer in operation lighthouse in the United States. It lies at the southern end of Monomoy Iceland south of Chatham, Massachusetts, Cape Cod and the
History
The first Chatham Lighthouse was built in 1823 to allow navigation through the left off the coast Polluck riff. There was a wooden tower and a house built of brick lamp room on the roof of the house keeper.
The present tower built in 1849 was one of the first lighthouses made of cast iron in the United States. In 1882 he was painted red, so it was more visible in the daytime. The entire complex consists of the wooden keeper's house, the cast-iron tower and a generator house made of bricks.
Since the opening of the Cape Cod Canal in 1914, most ships use on the road between the south of the Cape and Boston this shorter and more secure connection. According to the traffic took off at Monomoy Point Lighthouse and the lighthouse was decommissioned in 1923.
The keeper's house was preserved and served as a guest house. The Lighthouse Preservation Society, the Massachusetts Audubon Society and the Friends of Monomoy campaigned for the preservation of the lighthouse and keeper of the house, which is in the range of the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge. In addition to a historic hunting camp complex of Monomoy Point Light is the only building in the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge.
On November 1, 1979, the tower as Monomoy Point Lighthouse on the National Register of Historic Places, reference number 79,000,324 was added.