Wing's Neck Light

The Wing's Neck Light is a historic lighthouse in the Pocasset village of Bourne, Massachusetts. It is located on Wing's Neck Road at the end of Wing's Neck, a peninsula between Pocasset Harbor and the Hog Island Channel, which provides access to the Cape Cod Canal. The first lighthouse was built in the site in 1849; it was a stone keeper's house with a wood-frame tower above, and was destroyed by fire in 1878.^[2]

Wing's Neck Light
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Light and related buildings
Location	Pocasset, Massachusetts
Coordinates	41°40′56″N 70°39′37″W
Built	1849
MPS	Lighthouses of Massachusetts TR
NRHP reference No.	87001503[1]
Added to NRHP	June 15, 1987

The present lighthouse and keeper's house were built in 1889; it is the only extant wood-frame light and keeper's house connected by a covered way from that period.^[2]

The lighthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.^[1]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Barnstable County, Massachusetts