# Sassafras Point Light

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The **Sassafras Point Light** was a lighthouse that stood in the [Providence, Rhode Island](/source/Providence,_Rhode_Island) harbor approaches. It was deactivated in 1912 and no longer exists.

## History

This light was paired with the [Fuller Rock Light](/source/Fuller_Rock_Light) from the beginning: it was approved in the same bill, built according to the same design, and tended by the same keepers.[5] Sassafras Point jutted out north into the [Providence River](/source/Providence_River), and the light thus marked this obstruction. The short wooden pyramidal tower sat upon a granite pier and was provided with a sixth order [Fresnel lens](/source/Fresnel_lens); it was first lit in 1872.[4]

This light was unmanned and was visited from shore by boat; a keeper's dwelling was originally planned but although funds were appropriated in 1874 the lighthouse service was never able to acquire a property on which to erect a house, and keepers lived in their own homes in town. Staffing was difficult due to the low pay.[6]

The light was removed in 1912 as part of a channel-widening project.[6]

## References

1. Church, Earl (1920). [*Triangulation in Rhode Island*](https://books.google.com/books?id=4QINAQAAIAAJ&dq=sassafras+point+lighthouse&pg=PA40). Government Printing Office. p. 40. Retrieved 2014-01-14.

1. ["Sassafras Point Lighthouse"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140101082633/http://www.newenglandlighthouses.net/sassafras-point.html). Jeremy D'Entremont. Archived from [the original](http://www.newenglandlighthouses.net/sassafras-point.html) on 2014-01-01. Retrieved 2014-01-14.

1. Geake, Robert A. (2013). [*A History of the Providence River*](https://books.google.com/books?id=YkjYnXnt5ScC&dq=sassafras+point+lighthouse&pg=PA80). History Press. p. 80. ISBN 9781609499020. Retrieved 2014-01-14.[dead link]

1. ["Sassafras Point Lighthouse"](http://www.rhodeislandlighthousehistory.info/sassafras_point_lighthouse.html). R. Holmes. Retrieved 2014-01-14.

1. ["History of Fuller Rock Light, East Providence, Rhode Island"](http://www.newenglandlighthouses.net/fuller-rock-light-history.html). Jeremy D'Entremont. Retrieved 2014-01-14.

1. ["History of Sassafras Point Light, East Providence, Rhode Island"](http://www.newenglandlighthouses.net/sassafras-point-light-history.html). Jeremy D'Entremont. Retrieved 2014-01-14.

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