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Sabin Point Light stood in the Providence River in Rhode Island from 1872 until 1968, marking a bend in the shipping channel southwest of Sabin Point. Built as a combined lighthouse and keeper’s dwelling in the Second Empire style from Albert R. Dow’s contest-winning plan, it was part of a group of similar lights. The station became especially notable for surviving the 1938 hurricane, when keeper’s wife Annie Whitford endured repeated washouts and helped keep the light operating. Electrified and automated in 1956, it was ultimately destroyed not by storms but by channel widening, then replaced by shorter-lived navigational aids.
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East Providence, Rhode Island · United States
