10357. (document) Light House Establishment Repair Voucher, Sandy Neck Light Station, Barnstable, Cape Cod, Massachusetts c.1860.
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10357. (document) Light House Establishment Repair Voucher, Sandy Neck Light Station, Barnstable, Cape Cod, Massachusetts c.1860.
10357. (document) Light House Establishment Repair Voucher, Sandy Neck Light station, Barnstable, Cape Cod, Massachusetts c.1860. Early pre- civil war document details cost and payment to local lumber supplier Josiah Hinckley for timber and nails for repairs at Sandy Neck Lighthouse. The eastern tip of Sandy Neck — a half-mile wide, six-mile long, sandy peninsula on the north side of Cape Cod — marks the entrance to Barnstable Harbor. Congress appropriated $3,500 for a lighthouse at the eastern tip of the peninsula, a site known as Beach Point, on May 18, 1826. The first lighthouse consisted of a wooden lantern on the roof of a brick keeper’s house. The lantern originally held 10 lamps and reflectors, exhibiting a fixed white light 40 feet above mean high water and visible for nine nautical miles. The original lighthouse was replaced in 1857 by the 48-foot brick tower that still stands, slightly north of the first light’s location. Dated October 30, 1860, document is signed by the Josiah Hinckley and Lieutenant Charles N Trumbull, Engineer, 1&2 LH Districts. Document is in good condition, as originally folded. Measures 8” x 12 ½”. Rare early Sandy Neck Lighthouse piece. (VG+). $112.