Gay Head Light, featured Martime History of Massachetts travel erary. Explore historic marime s Massachetts listed the Natnal Register of Historic Plac.
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The Gay Head Lighthoe was the first lighthoe nstcted on Martha’s Veyard. In 1796, bee both islands were eply volved the whalg dtry, marime traffic had creased to the pot that Peleg Coff of Nantucket wrote his Congrsman askg for a light to be erected at Gay Head. In 1799 The Commonwealth of Massachetts ed two acr and four rods to the feral ernment for the se of the Gay Head Lighthoe.
This thorizatn was to help facilate safe passage for shippg traffic through the hazardo Veyard Sound between the Gay Head clay cliffs and the Elizabeth Islands. 1852 saw the Feral Lighthoe Board issue a 760-page report statg that Gay Head Lighthoe was “not send to any on the eastern ast, and should be fted, whout lay, wh a first-orr illumatg apparat. ” In 1853 lighthoe keeper Samuel Flanrs reported to the Veyard Gazette: “Gay Head is to have a new lighthoe, 5 or 6 rods back om the prent one, a new dwellg hoe is also to be erected”.