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Cleveland East Ledge Light

Lighthouse in Massachusetts, United States

Field	Value
image_name	Cleveland Ledge Lighthouse MA.JPG
location	Falmouth, Massachusetts
coordinates
yearbuilt	1943
automated	1978
foundation	Concrete and rock caisson
construction	Reinforced concrete
shape	Cylindrical on square dwelling
marking	White tower
red-brown caisson
black lantern
focalheight	74 ft
lens	4th order Fresnel lens (original), 190 mm (current)
range	15 nmi
characteristic	Fl W 10s
fogsignal	Horn, one every 15s
racon	"C" (Charlie)
module	{{Infobox nrhp
name	Cleveland Ledge Light Station
embed	yes
nearest_city	Falmouth, Massachusetts
architecture	Moderne, Art Moderne
added	June 15, 1987
area	less than one acre
mpsub
refnum	87001462

red-brown caisson black lantern

Cleveland East Ledge Light is a historic lighthouse in Falmouth, Massachusetts. It sits on a man-made island in shallow water on the eastern of the two halves of Cleveland Ledge, which is said to have been named for President Grover Cleveland because he owned the nearby Gray Gables estate and used to fish in the area. It marks the east side of the beginning of the dredged channel leading to the Cape Cod Canal and is the first fixed mark when going northbound through the canal. As it is an important mark in an area subject to fog, it has a racon showing the letter "C".

Structure

The lighthouse is built atop a caisson 52 feet in diameter, which also contains the lighthouse's engine room. The first two floors of the lighthouse serve as living and working space, on top of which sits the cylindrical concrete tower which is another 50 feet tall.

History

The lighthouse was built between 1940 and 1943 after a re-dredging of the Cape Cod Canal in the late 1930s, which allowed larger ships to pass through and necessitated the marking of Cleveland East Ledge, which sits quite close to the path of ships approaching the south entrance to the canal. The state of Massachusetts began the project, but in 1941 turned it over to the Coast Guard, which, after delays caused by the war, completed it in 1943.

In 1978, the laying of an underwater cable to the lighthouse allowed its automation, obviating the need for the 4-person Coast Guard crew which had staffed the light since its 1943 inauguration. The lighthouse was sealed and would remain unoccupied for much of the next 3 decades, apart from a 3-week renovation by the Coast Guard in 1990. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Cleveland Ledge Light Station in 1987.

Without regular maintenance, the lighthouse fell into disrepair. After putting the lighthouse on the market in 2007 generated very little interest, the General Services Administration put the lighthouse up for auction in October 2010. The bidding lasted into December. The winning party purchased the lighthouse for $190,000. It is now owned by the Cleveland Ledge Lighthouse, LLC.

References

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{{cite rowlett. ma2. (2009-12-16)
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