Besides this, the original lens was shifted to a different location. Moreover, a new first order lens and a revolving apparatus were placed in the light. The eight lens panels of the light consisted of the new first order lens and a combination of other lenses.
When Block Island Southeast Lighthouse was built, there was a land area of three hundred feet in between the lighthouse and edge of Mohegan Bluffs and the ocean. During the next hundreds of years the bluff eroded at a rapid rate and this led to the possibility of the light to fall in the sea.
The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse Foundation was founded in 1983 to save the lighthouse and after that ultimately the lighthouse was shifted from the edge of the Bluffs in the year1993. The lighthouse was moved to a new inland location, which is three hundred feet from the bluff. The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse was relighted on August 27, 1994. At that time the previous lens was removed and a new first order lens was placed in it.
The light was closed in the year 1990 because of some safety and environmental reasons and a skeleton tower was implanted in that place which carried the light.
The lighthouse offers spectacular scenery and draws a great number of tourists who come from different places of the world.
Southeast Lighthouse
122 Mohegan Trl.
New Shoreham, Rhode Island 02807
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