heritage asset · lens

Plymouth (Gurnet)

Revolving 4th-order lens (1871) at Gurnet Light, Plymouth MA -- oldest freestanding wooden lighthouse in the US and site of America's first twin-tower lighthouses.

At a glance

Manufacture date
1871
Lens order
4th order
Lens type
Revolving

Source Evidence

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Attribution

"Plymouth (Gurnet)" · LUX-ASSET-000011 · © LUX143 · Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International · https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000011/

Citation

LUX Light Archive, Heritage asset: "Plymouth (Gurnet)", LUX-ASSET-000011, https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000011/, accessed 2026-08-10, archive v0.24.362.