MORNING WATCH – detail
MORNING WATCH watercolor by Thomas A Needham
 
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Mussel Bed Shoal Lighthouse, Rhode Island (1873 -1938) – image: 12 x 16
 
Perhaps the smallest Lighthouse ever built, the Mussel Bed Shoal Light Station marked the Bristol Ferry Channel in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay. On watch for over a half a century, it met it’s demise in The Great Hurricane of 1938.