Off N. Water St., Edgartown, Massachusetts. County/parish: Dukes.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 15, 1987. NRIS 87001465.
1 contributing structure.
Edgartown Harbor Light is a lighthouse located in Edgartown, Massachusetts, United States, where it marks the entrance to Edgartown Harbor and Katama Bay. It is one of five lighthouses on the island of Martha's Vineyard. The first lighthouse, a two-story wooden structure that also served as the keeper's house, was constructed in 1828. It was demolished, and replaced by the current cast-iron tower, in 1939. Originally located on an artificial island 1/4 miles (~ 400 meters) from shore, the lighthouse is now surrounded by a beach formed, since 1939, by sand accumulating around the stone causeway connecting it to the mainland.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789795