Prerly perched Gay Head Lighthoe is on the move Martha’s Veyard. Fortunately, the move is not a wily feared fall off a cliff.
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GAY HEAD CLIFFS
Gay Head Light, featured Martime History of Massachetts travel erary. Explore historic marime s Massachetts listed the Natnal Register of Historic Plac. * images of gay head lighthouse *
Gay Head Light.
Gay Head Light, also known as Aqunah Light, is loted near the Aqunah Cliffs on the southwt ast of Martha's Veyard.
HISTORIC GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE ON THE MOVE
The Gay Head Cliffs are a natnal landmark. The betiful, lorful layers of clay make up the cliffs. It has been said that fossil bon of whal, mels and wild hors have been found the cliff layers. The Gay Head Lighthoe is perched atop the cliffs. It is the only workg lighthoe on Martha’s Veyard. The Gay Head lighthoe was built 1856. The lighthoe is * images of gay head lighthouse *
Established 1799, Gay Head Light Statn nsisted of a keeper's dwellg and an octagonal tower, which guid marers past Devil's Bridge rocks, a dangero ledge reachg out om the cliffs along the south shore of the island, and through the entrance to Veyard Sound. In 1852, a Lighthoe Board report listed Gay Head Light as one of the most important lightho on the Atlantic Coast. Bee of s strategic lotn, Gay Head Light received one of the first Frnel lens the Uned Stat 1854.