Boon Island Light

This Wikipedia photo shows the solar panels and the entire Island-click

  The shoals that surround the area of Boon Island are plentiful and about four miles long.  Shipwrecks happened on a regular basis in colonial times.  Day posts where built the first of tree length wood, and then a second one of iron posts, but what was really needed was a lighted beacon.
  In June of 1811 the first Boon Island Light was opened, it showed at fixed light at 32 feet above the water, the Island is 14 feet above the water at high tide, a storm in 1829 completely swamped the tower and a small quarters built in the interval.
  A second light was built in 1831, it was built of rubble stone and an iron lantern.  This light stood 49 feet tall for a mean height of 69 feet above the water.  Quarters were built as well.
  The present Light was built of granite block in 1854, it stands 133 feet tall, 25 feet in diameter at the base and 12 feet in diameter at the top.  It is the tallest Light in New England.  A stone and brick keepers quarters were added in 1890.
  The great blizzard of 1978 flooded the quarters to a level 0f 5 feet and boulders where thrown around like pebbles, the Coast Guard keepers took refuge in the tower (there are 168 steps) to save their lives.
Shortly after the blizzard a second-order Fresnel lens was installed; the light was automated in 1993 and the lens was placed in a museum.

The present day Light

A nice view from Comcast