Edgartown Harbor Light located in Edgartown, Massachusetts, is one of five lighthouses on the island of Martha's Vineyard. A two-story wooden structure that also served as the keeper's house, it was the first lighthouse on the island; built in 1828 to mark the entrance to Edgartown Harbor and Katama Bay. The necessity for a lighthouse at this location was precipitated by the large number of vessels frequenting the harbor during the whaling boom of the late 1700s and early 1800s.

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