US Lighthouse Society - Massachusetts https://uslhs.org/lighthouse-locations/massachusetts en Boston Lighthouse https://uslhs.org/education/articles/boston-lighthouse <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In 1630 eleven ships came into Boston harbor, landing emigrants at Salem and Charleston. Up to that time it was the largest fleet of vessels ever seen in an American harbor. In those years Massachusetts was described by enthusiastic voyagers from England as the garden spot of the New England coast.</p> </div></div></div> <div class="field field-name-field-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://uslhs.org/sites/default/files/article_images/boston_lighthouse.jpg" width="212" height="351" alt="" /> </div> <h3 class="field-label"> File </h3> <div class="field field-name-field-file field-type-file field-label-above"> <span class="file"><img class="file-icon" alt="PDF icon" title="application/pdf" src="/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png" /> <a href="https://uslhs.org/sites/default/files/articles_pdf/boston_lighthouse.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=2232210">boston_lighthouse.pdf</a></span> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-location field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"> <a href="/lighthouse-locations/massachusetts" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Massachusetts</a> </div> Mon, 04 Apr 2016 21:40:59 +0000 rich 2153 at https://uslhs.org https://uslhs.org/education/articles/boston-lighthouse#comments Saving Straitsmouth Island Light Station https://uslhs.org/education/articles/saving-straitsmouth-island-light-station <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Since the U.S.Coast Guard left Straitsmouth Island Light Station in the 1930s, it has been owned by a number of private owners and by the 1960s had been totally abandoned. It has been on the dooms-day list of endangered lighthouses since that time. A joint effort by the Thacher Island Association, the town of Rockport, and the Massachusetts Audubon Society has been established to save this historic and iconic lighthouse station first established in 1834. Straitsmouth Island is located near the harbor entrance to Rockport, Massachusetts, just north of Gloucester and about 35 miles north of Boston.</p> </div></div></div> <div class="field field-name-field-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://uslhs.org/sites/default/files/article_images/straitsmouth.jpg" width="186" height="523" alt="" /> </div> <h3 class="field-label"> File </h3> <div class="field field-name-field-file field-type-file field-label-above"> <span class="file"><img class="file-icon" alt="PDF icon" title="application/pdf" src="/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png" /> <a href="https://uslhs.org/sites/default/files/articles_pdf/straitsmouth_island_lightstation.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=903083">straitsmouth_island_lightstation.pdf</a></span> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-location field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"> <a href="/lighthouse-locations/massachusetts" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Massachusetts</a> </div> Fri, 07 Nov 2014 01:11:07 +0000 rich 1819 at https://uslhs.org https://uslhs.org/education/articles/saving-straitsmouth-island-light-station#comments