Wickford Harbor Light Explained

Coordinates:41.5734°N -71.4362°W
Yearbuilt:1882
Yearlit:1930 (current skeleton tower)
Shape:Original: square tower and attached dwelling
Current: skeleton tower
Marking:Original: white on red iron pier, lantern, black
Current: SG daymark on black tower
Lens:5th order Fresnel lens (original), aerobeacon (current)
Characteristic:FI G 6s
Fogsignal:Bell, every 20s
Current: none

Wickford Harbor Light, now officially Wickford Harbor Light 1, was built in 1882 as a square wood tower attached to a -story keeper's dwelling on Old Gay Rock on the south side of the entrance to Wickford Harbor on the west side of Narragansett Bay. It was deactivated and torn down in 1930 and replaced with the current black steel skeleton tower.[1] [2]

Notes and References

  1. 2009-10-25.
  2. 2009-08-08.