Six potential owners of the Minot’s Ledge Lighthouse got an up-close look at the 159-year-old structure Tuesday morning.In an effort to transfer stewardship of historic lighthouses, the federal ...

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MINOT’S LEDGE LIGHT — About a mile offshore from Scituate and Cohasset, Minot’s Ledge Light stands alone, surrounded by ocean. Waves splash and pound against its granite foundation ...

In an effort to transfer stewardship of historical lighthouses, the federal General Services Administration is offering Minot’s Ledge Lighthouse, located about a mile off Scituate and Cohasset ...

Light refreshments will be served. Lying about a mile off shore, Minot’s Ledge has been the curse of mariners for many years. Something had to be done to warn sailors of the dangers, and so ...

In an effort to transfer stewardship of historic lighthouses, the federal General Services Administration is auctioning Minot’s Ledge Lighthouse, located about a mile off Scituate and Cohasset ...

Minot’s Ledge Light hasn’t had a keeper for decades, but some say that the victims of one of the most tragic lighthouse disasters in history continue to keep guard more than 150 years later.

In the near distance, like a stony sentinel a mile off Cohasset, Minot’s Ledge Light rises out of the Atlantic, beaming its famous sequence – one flash (pause), four flashes (pause), three ...

The Minot’s Ledge Lighthouse, a mile off Cohasset and Scituate, has attracted one registered bid of $10,000 and eight potential bidders who are expected to attend an inspection Wednesday.

The storms were so bad that first winter at Minot’s Ledge Light, a lighthouse drilled into a reef a mile off the Massachusetts coast, that in 1850 the keeper’s cat eventually threw itself from ...

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