The Edgartown Harbor Light was the first lighthouse constructed at the Edgartown Harbor entrance. The first light was built in 1828 when Congress appropriated $5,500 so the federal government could purchase a plot of land from Seth Vincent for $80, and build a light at the entrance to the Harbor. The first Edgartown Light was destroyed in the Hurricane of 1938. In 1939, the United States Coast Guard demolished the existing buildings and installed an 1881 vintage cast-iron tower relocated from Ipswich (MA) Rear Range Light. When reconstructed at the mouth of Edgartown Harbor, the relocated conical tower was fitted with the fourth-order Fresnel lens, electrified, and automated.
Harbour Lights, creators of the worlds most popular collectible lighthouses, chose Edgartown Lighthouse as a Special Piece. It was available in our shop for a ONE DAY event in 1997 and has long been Retired . * We still have a few of this rare piece In Stock.
