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HISTORIC GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE ON THE MOVE
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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. 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. When three nsecutive Gay Head Light keepers died the extreme dampns of the keeper's hoe was blamed.