Editing Cape Cod (section)

==Lighthouses==
[[File:Race Point Lighthouse 1876 MA.JPG|thumb|left|[[Race Point Lighthouse]] in [[Provincetown, Massachusetts|Provincetown]] (1876)]]
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Beginning in 1797, [[lighthouse]]s were erected along Cape Cod to aid in navigation. [[Highland Light]] (or Cape Cod Light) is the oldest and tallest of these, and remains as one of a number of working lighthouses on Cape Cod and the Islands. Many of Cape Cod's earliest lighthouses featured a light tower that was attached directly to – and centered on the roof of – the [[Lighthouse keeper|keeper's dwelling]]. A stairway to the lantern room was accessible only from the top floor of the house. This came to be known as a [[Cape Cod style]] lighthouse, yet today, the only fully intact specimens are on the west coast of the United States.<ref name=lighthousefriends>{{cite web|title=Long Point, MA|url=http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=490|publisher=LighthouseFriends.com|access-date=February 15, 2014}}</ref>

[[File:Nauset Light, Eastham, MA, Cape Cod.jpg|thumb|Nauset Light, erected here in 1923 and moved to a safer location in 1996, is on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].]]
Most of Cape Cod's lighthouses are operated by the U.S. Coast Guard, with some exceptions, such as the [[Nauset Light]], which has been owned since 1997 by the Cape Cod National Seashore (National Park Service) and operated since 2004 in partnership between that agency and the non-profit Nauset Light Preservation Society.<ref>
{{cite web |url=http://www.nausetlight.org/NLPSpage.htm |title=Nauset Light Preservation Society |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Nauset Light |publisher=Nauset Light Preservation Society |access-date=March 29, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160710174635/http://www.nausetlight.org/NLPSpage.htm |archive-date=July 10, 2016 }}</ref>

In 1996, both Highland Light and Nauset Light were moved further from the shore because they were each at risk of being lost due to erosion by the sea. Highland Light, then {{convert|110|ft|m|abbr=on}} from the ocean, was moved {{convert|450|ft|m|abbr=on}} to the west, and Nauset Light, {{convert|37|ft|m|abbr=on}} from the bluff, was moved {{convert|300|ft|m|abbr=on}} west.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lighthouse Moves – Cape Cod National Seashore |url=http://www.nps.gov/caco/historyculture/lighthouse-moves.htm |publisher=[[National Park Service]] |access-date=January 30, 2013}}</ref>

The lighthouses of Cape Cod include:
* Upper Cape: [[Nobska Light]], [[Wing's Neck Light]] (privately owned), and [[Cleveland Ledge Light]] (also private).
* Mid Cape: [[Sandy Neck Light]], [[Hyannis Harbor Light]], Lewis Bay Light (or Hyannis Inner Harbor Light, also private), [[Bishop and Clerks Light]], [[Lighthouse Inn (West Dennis, Massachusetts)|West Dennis Light]] (formerly the Bass River Light)
* Lower Cape: [[Chatham Light]], [[Monomoy Point Light]], [[Stage Harbor Light]]
* Outer Cape: [[Long Point Light]], [[Wood End Light]], [[Race Point Light]], [[Highland Light]], [[Nauset Light]], [[Three Sisters of Nauset]], [[Mayo Beach Light]], [[Billingsgate Island Light]]