Long Point Light Station is an historic lighthouse at the end of Long Point in Provincetown, Massachusetts

Provincetown, Massachusetts

Provincetown is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,431 at the 2000 census, with an estimated 2007 population of 3,174...

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The light house was built in 1875 and added to the National Historic Register in 1987. The United States Coast Guard Light List

Light List

The United States Coast Guard Light List is an American navigation publication in 7 volumes made available yearly by the U.S. Coast Guard which gives information on lighted navigation aids, unlighted buoys, radiobeacons, radio direction finder calibration stations, daybeacons, racons, and LORAN...

 description is "White square tower". The actual light is 36 feet (11 m) above Mean High Water

Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the moon and the sun and the rotation of the Earth....

. Its green light is visible for 8 nautical miles (14.8 km).