Palmer Island Light

Palmers Island Light

Palmer Island Light, in 2013
Location	New Bedford, Massachusetts
Coordinates
Year first constructed	1849
Automated	1941
Deactivated	1962, reactivated as a private aid
Tower shape	Conical rubble tower
Markings / pattern	White
Original lens	Fifth order Fresnel lens
Characteristic	Fl W 4s
Fog signal	Original: Bell Current: none
USCG number	1-16898
Palmer Island Light Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Architect	Charles M. Pierce
MPS	Lighthouses of Massachusetts TR (AD)
NRHP Reference #	80000433
Added to NRHP	March 26, 1980

Palmer Island Light Station is a historic lighthouse in New Bedford Harbor in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. The lighthouse was built in 1849 out of stone rubble. It was discontinued when the harbor's hurricane barrier was built in the early 1960s, as its location immediately north of the barrier was no longer an outlying danger and there are lights on either side of the barrier opening.

From 1888 until 1891 it served, with Fairhaven Bridge Light, as a range light to guide vessels past Butler Flats, a rocky shoal on the west side of the entrance channel.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Palmer Island Light Station on March 26, 1980.

Nomenclature

• The USCG historical web site calls it "Palmer Island Light"
• The current USCG Light List calls it "Palmers Island Light"
• The National Register of Historic Places calls it "Palmer Island Light Station"

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in New Bedford, Massachusetts