Three Sisters Lighthouses Cape Cod

These are the three sisters lighthouses and their story is one of the most fascinating in cape cod history.

Three sisters lighthouses cape cod.

View all hotels near the three sisters lighthouses on tripadvisor. The history of these structures begins nearly 200 years ago when the town of eastham petitioned to have a beacon built along the shore to protect passing vessels after there had been so. Eastham bed and breakfast. The three sisters of nauset are a trio of historic lighthouses off cable road in eastham massachusetts falling prey to coastal erosion and decay brought by time and poor maintenance they fell into sea in 1890 and were replaced by wooden towers on brick foundations in 1892.

1 42 mi midway motel 1 57 mi inn at the oaks 2 73 mi fort hill bed and breakfast 0 45 mi the nauset guesthouse 3 44 mi eagle wing inn cape cod. Cape cod shores change quickly. Three 15 foot high masonry towers were built. It is a story that is still going on to this day.

The lights soon gained the nickname the three sisters because from sea they looked like women in white dresses with black hats. In 1911 two of the three sisters were decommissioned. Because there was one light the cape cod light in truro and two lights the twin lights in chatham it was decided that there should be three lights to distinguish between the. The three sisters are a series of 3 lighthouses located on the eastham coast of massachusetts.

The first set of lighthouses were commissioned by congress in 1837 and built for 10 000 to provide for a light halfway along the eastern coast of cape cod. Due to erosion the original buildings fell into the sea at around 1890 but were later restored in 1911.