Wing's Neck Light Explained

Wing's Neck Light
Location:Pocasset, Massachusetts
Coordinates:41.6822°N -70.6603°W
Built:1849
Added:June 15, 1987
Mpsub:Lighthouses of Massachusetts TR
Refnum:87001503

The Wing's Neck Light is a historic lighthouse in the Pocasset village of Bourne, Massachusetts. It is located on Wing's Neck Road at the end of Wing's Neck, a peninsula between Pocasset Harbor and the Hog Island Channel, which provides access to the Cape Cod Canal. The first lighthouse was built in the site in 1849; it was a stone keeper's house with a wood-frame tower above, and was destroyed by fire in 1878.[1]

The present lighthouse and keeper's house were built in 1889; it is the only extant wood-frame light and keeper's house connected by a covered way from that period.[1]

The lighthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

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  1. Web site: MACRIS inventory record for Wing's Neck Light. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2014-05-06.