Wing’s Neck Light

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Wing's Neck Light
Photo by Jeremy D'Entremont, www.lighthouse.cc
Established in 1848, the original Wing's Neck Light Station consisted of a stone keeper's dwelling with a hexagonal wooden tower. The weight of the lantern atop the tower eventually damaged the roof and a fire caused major damage to the lighthouse in 1878. Repairs postponed the construction of a new light station until 1889 when the current hexagonal, wooden tower and one-and-one-half-story, wooden keeper's quarters were constructed. In 1899, an enclosed passageway was built between the tower and dwelling. Rather than constructing a new assistant keeper's dwelling, the keeper's house at Ned Point Light in Mattapoisett was floated to the Wing's Neck site in 1923.

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Wing's Neck Light
Photo by Jeremy D'Entremont, www.lighthouse.cc

With the completion of Cleveland Ledge Light in 1943, Wing's Neck Light was no longer necessary and was discontinued two years later. The Federal government sold the property and remaining buildings, including the attached tower and dwelling, assistant keeper's dwelling and a wooden oil house (1849), into private ownership in 1947. Today, only the tower, enclosed passageway and keeper's dwelling remain. The house was renovated in 2003 and is used as a vacation house.

Wing's Neck Light Station is located at the end of Wing's Neck, a peninsula extending into Buzzards Bay at the entrance to the Cape Cod Canal in Pocasset, a Village of Bourne. Wing's Neck Light is privately owned and managed by the Wing's Neck Lighthouse Trust. It can be viewed from a gate approximately 100 yards distant. Wing's Neck is available for weekly rental year round. For more information visit Wing's Neck Lighthouse, contact them through email at twings_neck_lighthouse@charter.net or by phone at 508-460-0506.

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