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Ipswich Range Lights

Lighthouse · Essex County, Massachusetts

Title: Ipswich Light, Ipswich, Mass. Subjects: Beaches; Lighthouses Places: Massachusetts > Essex (county) > Ipswich Notes: Title from item. Extent: 1 print (po
Title: Ipswich Light, Ipswich, Mass. Subjects: Beaches; Lighthouses Places: Massachusetts > Essex (county) > Ipswich Notes: Title from item. Extent: 1 print (po · Tichnor Brothers, Publisher / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Ipswich Range Lights is a lighthouse in Essex County, Massachusetts, described in its record as range lights in Massachusetts, United States. Massachusetts has 81 lighthouses on record at Wayfarrow, 19 of them in Essex County.

Current sources show this lighthouse no longer stands. Status check, 2026-11: The front range light was shut off in 1932, and in 1939 the 1881 cast-iron rear tower was moved by barge to Edgartown; only a steel skeleton tower stands at Crane Beach now, and its build year is unclear (1939 vs. a USCG listing of 1929). It stands at 42.6852° N, 70.7662° W.

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Coordinates42.68520, -70.76620

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Where is Ipswich Range Lights?

Ipswich Range Lights is in Essex County, Massachusetts, at 42.6852, -70.7662.

How many lighthouses are in Essex County?

Essex County, Massachusetts has 19 lighthouses on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-05.