Boston Light
America’s first lighthouse (September 14, 1716), on Little Brewster Island. Destroyed by the British in 1776, rebuilt in 1783, and still the only officially staffed lighthouse in the United States.
One of the oldest things still standing in the region — dated to 1716, and tied to 2 other entities across four centuries of the city’s record.
Open the full civic recordCurrent pulse, routes, recommendations, and memory
Now, then, future
Every object is temporal: what it feels like now, what it used to mean, and what it can become next.
quiet enough to notice details. Best now: the older layer.
Boston Light enters the civic record in 1716.
2026: America’s 250th — July 4, 2026.
How it feels right now
Indoor escapes within a few blocks.
Coffee, libraries, bookstores, and campus edges.
How strongly the nearby graph reads as campus life.
Fame, landmark pull, and visitor-facing assets.
Older records and historical edges around this object.
Different kinds of things hiding within a short walk.
Routes with a point of view
Chosen moves from here
Human recommendations
What this meant before
- Established
- September 14, 1716
- Address
- Little Brewster Island, Boston Harbor
- Graph connections
- 2
In the graph 2 relationships — first-class data, not links
Explore Boston Light in the interactive Graph Explorer — click to expand every connection →Nearby what sits within a few minutes’ walk
Related reading
Boston Light is linked, through the graph, to City of Firsts — article / guide, 8.9 mi away. The kind of thread you only find by following the connections.
Keep exploring graph-powered — every path below is a real relationship, not a guess
One record, 1 framing cross-property publishing — never duplicated
How we know graph confidence — we explain our certainty, not just assert it
Schema.org JSON-LD — what answer engines read
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