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Geographic coordinates: 41° 40' 00" N 71° 22' 42" W
Nearest city: Warwick. Located at the southern end of Warwick Neck, West Passage of Narragansett Bay.
Established: 1826. Present lighthouse built: 1932. Automated: 1985
Height of tower: 51 feet. Height of focal plane: 66 feet.
Previous optic: Fourth-order Fresnel lens. Present optic: 250 mm.
Characteristic: Green light occulting every 4 seconds.
Fog signal: One blast every 15 seconds.
Vessels passing through the busy West Passage of Narragansett Bay had to contend with a narrow channel between Warwick Neck and the northern extremity of Patience Island, less than a mile to the southeast. Congress appropriated $3,000 for a lighthouse at the southern end of Warwick Neck to make the passage safer. The first lighthouse, established in 1827, consisted of a 30-foot tower atop a tiny stone dwelling with only two rooms, each about 11 feet square.
The first keeper at the station, Elisha Case, was provided insufficient living space for himself and his family, and the house was exceedingly damp. Case was replaced in 1831, but he was granted the right to harvest crops he had planted at the lighthouse.
Erosion ate away at the bank over the years until, by the 1930s, the lighthouse was threatened. A new conical cast-iron tower was built in 1932. A hurricane struck six years later and caused so much erosion that the new lighthouse was in danger of toppling over the cliff. The tower was moved about 50 feet inland with hydraulic jacks.
The last Coast Guard keeper left in 1985 when the light was automated, but the Coast Guard retained the 1889 keeper’s house for housing. Because a family lives at the station, the grounds are not usually open to the public.
The lighthouse can be seen at a distance from the locked gate of the station at the end of Warwick Neck Road, but it is better viewed from the water.
Fascinating Fact 
The present lighthouse here was one of the last traditional-style lighthouses built in New England (1932).
