Great Point Light, officially Nantucket Light, is a lighthouse located at the northernmost point of Nantucket Island. Originally built in 1784, the original wooden tower was destroyed by fire in 1816. The next year, a stone tower was erected, which stood until it was destroyed in a storm in March 1984. The stone tower was rebuilt again in 1986 to replicate the old one, and still works. Modern additions include solar panels to recharge the flashlight batteries, sheet pile foundations, and a 5ft (1.5m) thick concrete mat to help resist erosion.
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| Great Point Light on Nantucket Island |
The lighthouse is located on a thin spit of the beach where the currents of the Atlantic Ocean and Nantucket Sound meet. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as the Nantucket Light and removed after the structure was destroyed in 1986.
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| Great Point Light on Nantucket Island |
Nantucket is an island in Massachusetts where around 12,000 people live, although if you venture to visit the north, you will hardly see people. That construction that you see in our image is the Great Point lighthouse and it is located at the northernmost point of this place steeped in history.
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| Great Point Light on Nantucket Island |
The name of this island may be familiar to you because it appears in the novel Moby Dick, although Nantucket was famous before Herman Melville published his masterpiece. The reason is that it had the largest American whaling fleet and its ships operated all over the world. For this reason, the lighthouse that we show you today was and is of vital importance.