Plum Beach Lighthouse
Plum Beach Light, built in 1899, is a sparkplug lighthouse in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. The lighthouse was built using pneumatic caisson engineering.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kzirkel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Kzirkel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse in Rhode Island, United States
- Also known as: “Plum Beach Light”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge and Willett Free Library.
Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Juliancolton, Public domain.
The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge is a concrete box girder highway bridge which spans the West Passage of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. It is part of Rhode Island Route 138 and is on the route to Newport, Rhode Island for traffic heading northbound from Interstate 95. Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge is situated 1,000 feet southeast of Plum Beach Lighthouse.
Willett Free Library
Library
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Willett Free Library is situated 2 miles southwest of Plum Beach Lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saunderstown and Jamestown.
Saunderstown
Village
Photo: Gibbystuart, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saunderstown is a small village and historic district spread across the four towns of Narragansett, South Kingstown, Exeter and North Kingstown in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. Saunderstown is situated 2 miles southwest of Plum Beach Lighthouse.
Jamestown
Photo: Kzirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jamestown is village on Conanicut Island, a small parcel of land that connects mainland Rhode Island to Aquidneck Island in Narragansett Bay. Jamestown is 25 miles south of Providence and offers plenty of shopping, dining and recreation.
North Kingstown
North Kingstown is in Washington County, Rhode Island in the United States of America. It has 30 mi of coastline on Narragansett Bay and covers almost 58 sq mi.
Plum Beach Lighthouse
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Town of North Kingstown, South County, Rhode Island, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.53027° or 41° 31′ 49″ northLongitude
-71.40525° or 71° 24′ 19″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
87HCGHJV+4WOpenStreetMap ID
node 1580008275OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouseGeoNames ID
5224030Wikidata ID
Q7205303
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In Other Languages
From French to Russian—“Plum Beach Lighthouse” goes by many names.
- French: “phare de Plum Beach”
- French: “Phare de Plum Beach”
- Russian: “Маяк Плам-Бич”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Plum Beach and Jamestown Shores.
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