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Minot Ledge Light

Minots Ledge Light, though not actually in Boston Harbor, is part of the historical lore associated with navigational aids in the harbor and therefore merits consideration as part of the historical context of those aids. Minots Ledge Light is near the Cohasset Rocks about a mile off Cohasset and Scituate. The rocks had been the scene of many shipwrecks, including 40 just between 1832 and 1841. So, in 1838, the Boston Marine Society formed a committee to study the feasibility of a lighthouse in that location. After the committee reported that a lighthouse was indeed practical, the society repeatedly petitioned Congress to build it. Congress finally appropriated the funds in 1847. The site chosen was a rock known as the Outer Minot, a 25-foot-wide stretch of rock that was exposed only at low tide on calm days and would make the lighthouse the first one in the country in a wave-washed location. Capt. William H. Swift of the War Department’s Topographical Engineers, the designer, thought a stone tower could not be built in such a location so designed a 70-foot-tall tower on nine iron pilings cemented into five-foot-deep holes drilled into the rock. The keeper’s house and lantern were built on top of these pilings. Produced by Chuck Nilosek from Plymouth Rock TV, Life is Great New England, Oktane Media and Drone New England. For more information email us at [email protected]