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| Nobska Light, aka Nobska Point Light or Nobsque Light, is a 42 foot tall tower in Falmouth, Massachusetts. I assume it is named after some guy named Nobsque. |
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| It sits on the southwestern tip of Cape Cod, at the junction of Buzzards Bat and Vineyard Sound. If you wish to be specific, it is in the Woods Hole section of Falmouth. |
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| It went up in 1826, with the tower originally protruding from the house of the light keeper . It was replaced in 1876 with the setup you see in these pictures. |
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| Nobska Light was run by the US Lighthouse Service until 1939, when ownership was given to the US Coast Guard. It was automated in 1985 and the keeper was retired. Joseph Hindley, who ran it from 1978 to 1982, may have been the last civilian lighthouse keeper in New England. It is now the house of whoever is the Commanding Officer of the Southeastern New England sector of the Coast Guard. |
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| Bye, Nobska! |
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