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Gay Head Light

  • Address: Lighthouse Rd
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Structure

Gay Head Light is a coastal lighthouse located on Martha's Vineyard in Aquinnah, Massachusetts. The cliffs at Gay Head formed thousands of years ago when Pleistocene glaciers forced up Cretaceous and Tertiary era coastal plain strata during a series of ice-thrust. - AsNotedIn


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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1856/00/00

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Particulars for Gay Head Light:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Historic Use Coast Guard facility
Geological Period Cretaceous Period
Area of Significance Engineering
Criteria Exemplar
Owner Federal
Science Geology
Geology Glacier Drift
Area of Significance Maritime
Sight Category Structure
Geology Terminal Moraine
Geological Period Tertiary
Area of Significance Transportation
Historic Use Water-related



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 87001464
Resource Type:
Owner: Federal
Architect: unknown
Architectural Style: No style listed
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination, Additional documentation
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: State
Area of Significance: Engineering, Transportation, Architecture, Maritime history
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1850-1874
Significant Year: 1856
Historic Function: Transportation, Defense
Historic Sub-Function: Water-related, Coast Guard facility
Current Function: Defense, Transportation
Current Sub-Function: Water-related Coast Guard facility

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