Gay Head Light - Cape Cod Lightho

Contents:

• HISTORIC GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE ON THE MOVE
• GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE MOVE IS PLETE
• HISTORIC GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE ON MARTHA'S VEYARD MOVED INLAND
• GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE MOVE IS ON TRACK
• FIRST THEY MOVED THE GAY HEAD LIGHT. NOW THEY WANT TO FIX .
• AFTER REMARKABLE RELOTN, HISTORIC GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE SH AGA
• GAY HEAD LIGHT
• GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE
• GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE ON MARTHA'S VEYARD MOVG LOTNS
• GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE STORY AIRS WEDNDAY ON ‘NOVA’

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.

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.

Another challengg nsiratn was the social, enomic, and staable velopment of the Gay Head Lighthoe project.

HISTORIC GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE ON MARTHA'S VEYARD MOVED INLAND

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. 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 MOVE IS ON TRACK

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. Is poised to move the Gay Head Lighthoe back om s prer perch on the edge of the unstable clay bluff to a safer lotn some 130 feet back, where will s on a newly poured ncrete platform.

FIRST THEY MOVED THE GAY HEAD LIGHT. NOW THEY WANT TO FIX .

The plan for movg Gay Head Light is to refully and crementally dig around the lighthoe and sert a grid of I-beams unr the two 24-ch layers of grane that unrp the lighthoe. Unlike many other lightho, Gay Head Light is not obsolete.

AFTER REMARKABLE RELOTN, HISTORIC GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE SH AGA

“It’s an active aid to navigatn, ” Gay Head Lighthoe mtee chairman Len Butler said. After movg the Gay Head Light farther land last year, lol officials are now lookg for up to $1. Was hired 2015 to move the Aqunah lighthoe land to protect om erosn, said Len Butler, chairman of the Gay Head Light Advisory the relotn was plete, the mtee asked the Buffalo, N.

”Only about $100, 000 of those origal funds rema, Butler said while the repairs are cril, the Gay Head Light remas stable. He's the keeper of the lighthoe atop the Gay Head Cliffs at the tip of Martha's Veyard -- cliffs that are beg chipped away by erosn. The Gay Head Cliffs lighthoe Martha's Veyard ss on erodg cliffs.

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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. 2015 Gay Head Lighthoe move Martha’s Veyard, MA.

And ICC moved the 400 ton Gay Head Lighthoe 129′ on the Wt Coast of Martha’s Veyard, MA om the erodg cliffs.

Close up view of Gay Head Lighthoe on Martha’s Veyard on Cape Cod.

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History of The Gay Head Lighthoe. The Gay Head Light holds the notable honor of beg the first lighthoe nstcted on Martha’s Veyard.

GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE ON MARTHA'S VEYARD MOVG LOTNS

The whalers need the lighthoe on Gay Head bee of a treachero sectn of rocks lled the “Devil’s Bridge. Wh some upgras to cleaner burng, more efficient parabolic lens lamps the Gay Head Light ntued operatn until 1844 when was termed that the clay cliffs had erod puttg the lighthoe stcture at risk.

It still weighed a ton and was very difficult to transport to Gay Head and up to the new brick tower. Electrifitn did not e to Gay Head until 1954. The next big change for the Gay Head Light was the replacement of the light keeper’s hoe 1902.

GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE STORY AIRS WEDNDAY ON ‘NOVA’

In the 1980s, the Veyard Environmental Rearch, Instute’s (VERI) helped fight for the prervatn of three lightho slated for moln, cludg Gay Head. Extensive prervatn took place, potg bricks and remediatn of toxic mold eventually endg the placg of Gay Head Light on the Natnal Register of Historic Plac.

This has been taken on by the Town of Aqunah through the formatn of s “Save the Gay Head Lighthoe Commtee. Acmodatns Near Gay Head Lighthoe:. An unique aspect of the Gay Head Light is the opportuny to learn about the Wampanoag who still ri on their anctral land at Aqunah.

No trip to the Gay Head Light would be plete, of urse, whout a vis to the Martha’s Veyard Mm to see the Frnel lens.