Gay Head Lighthoe | Natnal Tst for Historic Prervatn

Contents:

• HISTORIC GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE ON THE MOVE
• GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE MOVE IS PLETE
• GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE MOVE IS PLETE — MV TIM
• HISTORIC GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE ON MARTHA'S VEYARD MOVED INLAND
• GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE ON MARTHA'S VEYARD IS BEG MOVED
• AFTER REMARKABLE RELOTN, HISTORIC GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE SH AGA
• MOVG THE GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE
• GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI

HISTORIC GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE ON THE MOVE

The Gay Head Lighthoe on Martha's Veyard was threatened by years of erosn.

Prerly perched Gay Head Lighthoe is on the move Martha’s Veyard.

“The lighthoe is immediate danger of topplg over the edge of the Gay Head Cliffs, a nsequence of a century of erosn and the direct impact of climate change, ” the Natnal Tst for Historic Prervatn’s webse said s listg of the 1854 lighthoe on s 2013 list of the Most Endangered Historic Plac.

GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE MOVE IS PLETE

Before started movg, the lighthoe was jt 46 feet om the edge of Gay Head Cliffs.

“The Gay Head Lighthoe is really one of the inic landmarks that intifi this island. Coast Guard and will still functn as a bean to marers after s move, acrdg to a Gay Head Lighthoe webse operated by a mtee anized to save the historic stcture.

GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE MOVE IS PLETE — MV TIM

In 1856, Gay Head was one of the first lightho the Uned Stat to receive a Frnel lens, acrdg to the Natnal Tst for Historic Prervatn. On Saturday, the Gay Head Light reached s fal stop on a 129-foot journey back om the se had occupied sce 1844, and which after more than a century of erosn was prerly close to the edge of the cliff.

HISTORIC GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE ON MARTHA'S VEYARD MOVED INLAND

Another challengg nsiratn was the social, enomic, and staable velopment of the Gay Head Lighthoe project. The Gay Head Cliffs and surroundg lands have a sacred anctral and signifint cultural importance to the Wampanoag Tribe. After 2-1/2 days, the Gay Head Lighthoe was succsfully moved a distance of 129 feet away om the erodg cliff and onto s new foundatn, 12 days ahead of schle.

The Gay Head Cliffs and surroundg lands, which are owned by the native Wampanoag Tribe, did not experience any adverse damage durg the relotn. Workers movg the Gay Head Lighthoe, which settled to s new lotn Saturday, May 30, 2015. (Charl Kpa/AP)On Martha's Veyard, the 160-year-old Gay Head Lighthoe has been succsfully moved away om an erodg Saturday afternoon, workers fished movg the lighthoe farther land along steel rails g powerful hydrlic pistons.

GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE ON MARTHA'S VEYARD IS BEG MOVED

Experts believe Gay Head Lighthoe will now be safe for another hundred years. Loted on the sparsely populated, wtern edge of the rort island, Gay Head Light has been a cril waypot for marers sce the peak of the whalg tra the 19th Head Light flash a whe signal on Oct.

"View om unrneath the Gay Head Lighthoe on Martha's Veyard, which pleted s move land Saturday, May 30, 2015. — An inic lighthoe on Martha's Veyard is set to beg a multi-day trek to a new home farther $3 ln effort to move the Gay Head Lighthoe, among the most endangered historic landmarks the U. S., would prevent the 160-year-old stcture om tumblg down the rapidly-erodg bean was a cril waypot for marers navigatg the sometim foggy astle durg the heyday of the whalg tra, which was centered around southeastern Massachetts muni like Martha's Veyard durg the 19th, 's a popular tourist statn on the sparsely populated wtern edge of the famo rort island, which also is home to the ferally-regnized Aqunah Wampanoag Gay Head Lighthoe stands on Martha's Veyard Aqunah, Eisen / Bloomberg via Getty ImagThe lighthoe move had been slated to start June 10 but was phed up to Thursday bee of favorable weather and faster-than-expected se preparatn already have hoisted the 400-ton brick-and-mortar lighthoe about six feet off the ground and placed on a wood-and-steel ame ready for the move.

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AFTER REMARKABLE RELOTN, HISTORIC GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE SH AGA

Who owns the Gay Head Lighthoe?

Will The Gay Head Lighthoe still be a functng navigatnal vice? The Gay Head Light is undoubtedly the most regnized stcture Aqunah. Perhaps the most nnected to the Gay Head Lighthoe is Martha, who grew up hearg stori om her father about a childhood as a light keeper’s son and how the whole fay ntributed to s operatn and upkeep.

A lighthoe on the Massachetts island of Martha’s Veyard, among the most endangered historic landmarks the US, is to beg a trek to a new home further $3m project to move the Gay Head Lighthoe will prevent the 160-year-old stcture om tumblg down the rapidly erodg bean was a cril waypot for marers navigatg the sometim foggy astle durg the heyday of the whalg tra, which was centred on Massachetts muni such as Martha’s Veyard durg the is a popular tourist statn on the sparsely populated wtern edge of the famo rort island, which also is home to the ferally regnised Aqunah Wampanoag lighthoe move was due to start on 10 June but was brought forward bee of favourable weather and faster-than-expected se preparatn already have hoisted the 400-tonne brick-and-mortar lighthoe about six feet off the ground and placed on a wood and steel ame ready for the move. Advot say movg the lighthoe has bee more urgent recent years bee nstant landslis, pummellg ocean wav and flowg groundwater have erod the brilliantly loured Gay Head cliffs, often at a rate of several feet a lighthoe is now jt 46ft om the clay and sandstone cliff edge. Workers Aqunah, Massachetts, move the Gay Head Lighthoe om s origal footg, seen at center between the rails, on Thursday, May 28.

MOVG THE GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE

Len Butler, of the Save the Gay Head Lighthoe mtee, shows the spiral stairse unrneath the lighthoe. Gay Head Lighthoe was the first lighthoe built on Martha’s Veyard and one of the first the U.

Standg atop the Natnal Natural Landmark Gay Head Cliffs, the lighthoe serv as a bean to Wampanoag tribal herage and is the only lighthoe wh a history of Native Amerin Lighthoe keepers. “Gay Head Lighthoe reprents an important part of Massachetts astal muni’ inty and the cultural and ntil history of the Uned Stat. “Gay Head Lighthoe reprents an important part of Massachetts astal muni’ inty and the cultural and ntil history of the Uned Stat, ” said Stephanie Meeks, print of the Natnal Tst for Historic Prervatn.

GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE

” The lighthoe is immediate danger of topplg over the edge of the Gay Head Cliffs, a nsequence of a century of erosn and the direct impact of climate change. It is timated that two years, or ls, there will not be enough land left to acmodate the machery and equipment need to move the Gay Head Lighthoe was clud on the Tst's 11 Most Endangered Historic Plac list for 2013. Perched atop strikg, multi-lored cliffs at the wtern end of Martha�s Veyard, Gay Head Lighthoe occupi a picture-perfect lotn.

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This name, however, failed to stick, and by the 1660s, the area beme monly known as Gay Head, due to the headland�s gaily-lored cliffs. The area around Gay Head has been home to Wampanoag Indians for thoands of years, and to this day many lol rints are members of the tribe.

In 1998, the town neart the lighthoe changed s name om Gay Head to Aqunah, which is Wampanoag for �end of the island. The passage between Gay Head and the Elizabeth Islands to the wt is treachero for marime traffic due to the submerged obstctn lled Devil�s Bridge, which extends seaward om Gay Head.

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In 1796, a Massachetts State Senator asked for a lighthoe to protect the numero vsels passg through Veyard Sound, and 1798 Congrs approved $5, 750 to build a lighthoe at Gay Head. The origal Gay Head Lighthoe, an octagonal woon tower built on a stone base, was acpanied by a woon keeper�s dwellg, a barn, and an oil storage buildg. Ebenezer Skiff, the first European to live the town of Gay Head, ma the gural lightg of the spir lamp si the tower�s lantern room on November 18, 1799.