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| Nearest Town or City: | East Providence Rhode Island United States |
| Location: | Providence River. |
| Managing Organization: | American Lighthouse Foundation (Friends of Pomham Rocks Lighthouse Chapter) |
| Website: | http://www.lighthousefoundation.org/pomh am2.cfm |
| Notes: | In 1974 Pomham Rocks Light was replaced by an automatic light on a skeleton tower. In 1980 the property was sold to the Mobil Oil Company, which has a refinery and terminal near the lighthouse. Caretakers lived on the island for some years. ExxonMobil has now leased the lighthouse to the Friends of Pomham Rocks Lighthouse |
| Tower Height: | 40 |
| Description Tower: | Wood octagonal tower with black cast iron lantern on roof of keeper's house. |
| Operational: | No |
| Date Established: | 1871 |
| Date Present Tower Built: | 1871 (12/1/1871) |
| Current Use: | None. |
| Open To Public: | No. |
| Directions: | Pomham Rocks Light can be easily seen from the East Bay Bicycle Path in East Providence. The path is open to walkers as well as bikers. It extends from Bristol to Providence. To reach the parking area closest to the lighthouse: heading east on I-195, take Exit 4, Riverside/Veteran's Memorial Parkway (RI 103). Continue about five miles to the Bullocks Point Road parking area for the bike path. The view of the lighthouse is a short walk to the north. |
| Other Buildings: | 1871 two story wood Second Empire keeper's dwelling (integral to tower), oil house. |
| Optics: | 1871: Sixth order Fresnel lens; 1939: Fourth order Fresnel lens, now at Customs House Maritime Museum at 25 Water Street in Newburyport, Massachusetts, phone (978) 462-8681. |
| Height Focal Plane: | 54 |
| National Register: | Yes |
| Keepers: | C. H. Salisbury (1871-1893); Mary Salisbury (1893); Thomas S. Fishburne (1898-1908); Adolf Herman Aronson (1908-1937), William J. Howard (1937-1951), Howard B. Beebe (c. early 1950s), Ernest Stacey (c. 1950s), Dennis Tardiff (Coast Guard Officer in Charge 1971-1974) |
| Alternate Name1: | Pomham Rock Light |
| Alternate Name2: | Pumham Rock Light |
| Telephone: | 5082261185 |
| Email: | pomhamrockslighthouse@yahoo.com |
| Contact Address: | P.O. Box 15121 |
| City: | Riverside |
| State: | Rhode Island |
| Postal Code: | 02915 |
| Country: | United States |
| Signal: | 1900: Fog siren; 1903: Fog bell. |
| Date Deactivated: | 1974 |
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