This Boston lighthouse is celebrating its 300th birthday
Boston’s oldest lighthouse is celebrating a pretty big birthday.
Boston Light, the nation’s first and oldest lighthouse station on Little Brewster Island, turns 300 on Wednesday—and Boston Virtual Imaging created a celebration video Tuesday in its honor.
The lighthouse tower is not the original 1716 structure, which was built by the British. It was destroyed by them during the Revolutionary War and rebuilt by the new American nation in 1783.
“How many things established 300 years ago are still functioning as they were intended to be?” Sally Snowman, the U.S. Coast Guard’s last resident lightkeeper, told the Associated Press. “It was a major aid to navigation in 1716, and that’s exactly what it’s doing today.”
Events are planned to celebrate the big birthday downtown at the city’s waterfront. The lighthouse will also be powered down and then ceremonially relighted at sunset.
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