Wing's Neck Light, Wooden lighthouse in Pocasset, United States.
Wing's Neck Light is a 10-meter (33-foot) wooden lighthouse standing at the tip of a peninsula between Pocasset Harbor and Hog Island Channel in Massachusetts. The tower connects to an adjacent keeper's house through a covered passageway that shelters the passage between both buildings.
The original lighthouse was built in 1849 with a stone keeper's house and wooden-frame tower. After a fire destroyed it in 1878, the structure was rebuilt in 1889 and has remained in use since.
The lighthouse embodies Massachusetts maritime heritage through its wooden construction and the covered walkway connecting the tower to the keeper's house, creating a unified coastal structure that reflects traditional lighthouse design.
The lighthouse marks the entrance to the Cape Cod Canal and serves as a navigation aid for vessels moving through local waters. Its location at the peninsula's end ensures visibility from various distances offshore.
The lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, making it one of the few surviving wooden lighthouses of this design. Its ongoing service to maritime traffic keeps it functioning as a working aid rather than merely a historic relic.
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