Wing's Neck Light

Wing's Neck Light sits at the end of Wing's Neck, a treeless, breakwater-protected peninsula in the Pocasset section of Bourne on the east side of Buzzards Bay. It originally guarded the eastern approach to Sandwich Harbor and the Monument River, where commerce flowed past from the port of Wareham and the Pocasset iron foundry, and it later marked an approach to the Cape Cod Canal, which opened in 1914. The station consists of an 1889 three-story octagonal wood-frame tower sheathed in white shingles and joined by a covered walkway to an 1889 keeper's dwelling, together with an 1849 stone oil house and an 1870s keeper's house that were floated to the site from Ned Point in Mattapoisett. Now unmanned and inactive, it is listed as the only intact wooden tower attached by a covered walkway to a period keeper's house, and it retains several unusual original features including a finely built staircase and rare copper venting.

Wing's Neck Light is a landmark in Bourne, Barnstable County. It is one of 6,558 landmarks documented in Barnstable County, among 6,897 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.

The site sits at 41.6802, -70.6612 near Bourne. The nearest cataloged historic site is Wing's Neck Light Keeper's Dwelling (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Wing's Neck Light Boathouse, Wing's Neck Light Oil House, and Wing's Neck Light Second Keeper's House.

This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.