WayfarrowMayo Beach Light
Lighthouse · Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Mayo Beach Light is a lighthouse in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Massachusetts has 81 lighthouses on record at Wayfarrow, 21 of them in Barnstable County.
It was deactivated in 1922; the structure is built of cast iron.
Current sources show this lighthouse no longer stands. Status check, 2026-11: The 1881 cast-iron tower was removed and re-erected in California as the Point Montara Light in 1928. Only the private keeper's house and oil house remain in Wellfleet. The record's 1837 date is for the original 1837–38 house-with-lantern, which was razed in 1881. It stands at 41.9307° N, 70.0343° W.
Nearby places
- Camp Mar Velghost town · Barnstable County · 0.6 mi
- Le Count Hollowghost town · Barnstable County · 3 mi
- Billingsgate Island Lightlighthouse · Barnstable County · 4.5 mi
- Truro Stationghost town · Barnstable County · 4.6 mi
- Three Sisters of Nausetlighthouse · Barnstable County · 6.3 mi
- Nauset Lightlighthouse · Barnstable County · 6.4 mi
- Highland Lightlighthouse · Barnstable County · 7.7 mi
- Long Pointghost town · Barnstable County · 9.7 mi
- Long Point Lightlighthouse · Barnstable County · 9.9 mi
- Wood End Lightlighthouse · Barnstable County · 10.3 mi
- Race Point Lightlighthouse · Barnstable County · 14.1 mi
- Chatham Lightlighthouse · Barnstable County · 18.5 mi
Questions
Where is Mayo Beach Light?
Mayo Beach Light is in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, at 41.9307, -70.0343.
How many lighthouses are in Barnstable County?
Barnstable County, Massachusetts has 21 lighthouses on record at Wayfarrow.
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