Nauset Light

Nauset Light (pictured here in August 2019) was built in 1877 in Chatham and moved to Eastham in 1923. The light shines 114 above the sea and can be seen for 17 miles.
For more information see https://www.nausetlight.org/

“Nauset Light and beach, Eastham, Cape Cod, Mass.” Card. So. Yarmouth, Mass.: E.D. West Co., [ca. 1860–1980]. Digital Commonwealth, https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/n8710847m (accessed July 04, 2023).

“Nauset Light, Eastham, Cape Cod, Mass.” Card. [ca. 1860–1940]. Digital Commonwealth, https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/n8710c64w (accessed July 04, 2023).

Schmidt, Meg Gray. “Nauset Light Beach.” Photograph. August 1952. Digital Commonwealth, http://openarchives.umb.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15774coll6/id/10463 (accessed October 24, 2023).

Nauset Light from 1960 Eastham Vacationers Handbook

“Nauset Light from the air.” Card. [ca. 1860–1980]. Digital Commonwealth, https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/n8710850x (accessed November 12, 2023).


Postcards postmarked 1960 and 1971

Nauset Light 1965
Milbier, Joe. “Nauset Light Beach.” Photograph. 1965. Digital Commonwealth, http://openarchives.umb.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15774coll6/id/10471 (accessed November 12, 2023).


circu 1967


November 2022