Historic lighthouse and oil house at Wood End, the southernmost point on the sandy hook
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The “Cape Cod Lighthouses” page (April 2, 2017 by sgadmin) says that Wood End Light “was lit for the very first time on November 20, 1872 to take the sailors to the lively port of Provincetown.” Wood End Light is less known (and less visited) then the Long Point Light Station, which is identical in design: the Long Point Light Station at the eastside tip of Long Point.
Although the lighthouses (Race Point, Wood End and Long Point) made navigation around Cape Tip safer, maritime disasters continued to happen around the peninsula.
Older pictures show a wooden keepers house next to the lighthouse. Aso, there was a salt works and a fish oil works nearby. Today, you will only find the lighthouse tower and the small oil house, which are well taken care of (see entry at Lighthousefriend.com):
Although the Coast Guard still owns Wood End Lighthouse, the
American Lighthouse Foundation was granted a license in 1998 to
maintain the structure. Since this agreement was signed, the
Cape Cod Chapter of the American Lighthouse Foundation has
repeatedly teamed up with New England Lighthouse Lovers to paint
the oil house and lighthouse.
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