Haunted Boston Harbor by Sam Baltrusis

Author:Sam Baltrusis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2016-07-16T16:00:00+00:00

MINOTS LEDGE LIGHT

Haunted lighthouses for sale? Only in New England. Minots Ledge Light, located about one mile offshore from Scituate and Cohasset, was auctioned off in October 2014 to a private bidder—identified later as Boston-based philanthropist Bobby Sager—for a mere $222,000.

Lighted for the first time on January 1, 1850, Minots was built in response to the record number of maritime disasters in the southeast corner of Boston Harbor. In fact, the rocky terrain surrounding Minots Ledge was responsible for the destruction of forty vessels in the 1830s, including a heartbreaking incident involving the death of dozens of Irish immigrants en route to Boston to start a new life in America.

The lighthouse’s initial promise was short-lived. In April 1851, the original wooden structure was lost at sea when a torrential, nor’easter-like storm literally ripped the tower off its ledge. Designed by the Corps of Topographical Engineers, it was built to be pinned to the ledge. Apparently, the Corps’s approach didn’t work.

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