Watch Hill Light

by Joan Carroll

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Watch Hill Light

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Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Digital Photograph

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It was spitting rain on this day when I visited Watch Hill Lighthouse near Westerly RI, USA. The guidebook said that you have to walk to the lighthouse from a parking area in the village of Watch Hill, about a 15-20 min walk. It is located at the end of a private road, with parking reserved for the elderly and those with handicapped plates. But....it was raining....it was November....it was midweek....surely they wouldn't mind if I parked there for a few minutes to take pictures! I DO have my AARP card too if that qualifies me as 'elderly'. So I ventured down the private road. This HAS to be the most narrow private road I have ever been on! The bushes were scraping the sides of the car all the way. And as I suspected there was no one but a lonely fisherman there in the parking area on that awful day! The first lighthouse was established here in 1808 to aid mariners passing through Watch Hill Passage between Block Island Sound and Fisher's Island Sound. The original 35-foot wooden tower and small dwelling were threatened with erosion by the 1850s. The current square granite tower was erected in 1856 along with a two story brick dwelling. The Watch Hill Lighthouse was automated in 1986, when its Fresnel lens was replaced by a modern beacon. The buildings at the station are now listed in the National Register of Historic Places and are leased to the Watch Hill Lightkeepers Association, which has established an endowment for the preservation of the property.

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November 21st, 2013

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