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West Point Lighthouse The West Point lighthouse is a distinctively designed 20.6m wooden lighthouse that was built in 1875 to aid vessels through the western entrance to the Northumberland Strait. Today, the West Point lighthouse offers the rare opportunity to sleep like a lighthouse keeper!

There's only one West Point. It's an unforgettable place where the people and the coast live in harmony where the elements shape our shore, our people, our pastimes and our way of life. West Point is an ever-changing landscape, a new direction for those who want to get off the beaten path, and a showcase for the best that PEI has to offer.

From the Sign West Point Lighthouse West Point Lighthouse, built in 1875, is PEI's tallest lighthouse at 67, feet 8 inches. The first of the quotsecond generation lighthousequot square-tapered towers built after P.E.I. joined Confederation in 1873, its broad black stripes day marks were originally painted red until 1915.

West Point Lighthouse, constructed in 1875, was the first of the second generation lighthouses on Prince Edward Island. The reconstructed gable-roofed lighthouse keeper's house with lean-to storage provides an example common among lighthouses of this style.

The purpose of the Prince Edward Island Lighthouse Society is to aid in the preservation of the lighthouses on PEI.

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The Island's tallest lighthouse stands on a sandy beach at the tip of West Point where the waters of the Northumberland Strait and Egmont Bay merge.

In 1875, construction of the historic West Point Lighthousenestled along the shores of the Northumberland Strait at the western tip of Prince Edward Islandwas completed, and the lamp was lit in December of that same year. The Island's tallest lighthouse had only two keepersLighthouse Willy 1875-1925 and Benjamin MacIsaac 1925-1963until electrification in 1963 ended the

West Point Lighthouse was recognized as a heritage place under the Prince Edward Island Heritage Places Protection Act on November 1, 2012. On September 25, 2013, the lighthouse was awarded a Provincial Designated Heritage Place plaque and certificate.

The West Point Lighthouse is also home to one of PEI's most complete collections of Lighthouse information and memorabilia. The onsite museum has a ton of artifacts, displays and exhibits, telling the story of the community, the lightkeepers, the technology and the history of PEI's most unique lighthouse.