Built in 1811. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.
From the record
“Old Scituate Light also known simply as Scituate Light is a historic lighthouse located on Cedar Point in Scituate, Massachusetts. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 as Scituate Light.”
Wikipedia article Old Scituate Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 138 National Register listings published here for Plymouth County · listed in 1987 · category: Structure · built in 1811.
National Register reference number.87001490- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Scituate. On the beach at Scituate may be seen the wreck of the Pilot Boat Columbia, thrown there by the great storm of November 27, 1898, It has been transformed by Mr. Otis Barker into a counterpart of the "The Ark" on Yarmouth Sands, known to us all as the home of " Peggotty " and " Little Kmily." It contains four rooms (the furniture being made mainly from the fittings of the boat), including "Little Davie's room," that completest and must desirable little bedroom ever seen, in the stern of the vessel. A huge beach stone fireplace with andirons of old anchors, and before it a chair made from Webster's yacht '" Lapwing." Throughout the rooms may be seen many curios and relics almost without number.
Scituate, Mass. Livery ami Boarding Stable. Coaches at Depot for all Trains. Piano and Furniture Moving. Teaming;. Building Lots and Cottages lor Sale ami to Let. Agent for tile New York and Boston Dispatch Express Co. Telephone Connection.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Scituate Light
between 2015 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Debris and open burning
32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8
Natural
4
Smoking
4
Recreation and ceremony
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,137 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Scituate Light between 1836 and 1975: 488 Plantae, 334 Animalia, 160 Unrecorded, 80 Fungi, 69 Chromista, 6 Bacteria.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A Loveridge, A. B. Seymour, A. C. Mathieson and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Scituate, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flood, 1 lightning.
The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Places like Duxbury and East Bridgewater received 4.49 inches and 3.62 inches of rain respectively. In North Scituate at 2:30 AM EST Hollett St at Country Way was flooded.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is reproduced in full on its own page, word for word and never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 87001490, 13 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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