America’s 1st Light
Boston Light on Little Brewster Island in Boston Harbor holds a unique place in American Lighthouse history. It’s uniquness is two fold. One, it was North America’s fist lighthouse. Two it was the last North American Lighthouse to be automated in 1998.
The first keeper, George Worthylake, lighted the tower for the first time on September 14, 1716. Later during the Revolutionary War both American and British forces controlled the light and at one point it was blown up.
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