The Story Begins

Marta Ray and the Undersea Kingdom

The year 1841. The town Cohasset, Massachusetts, a small, quaint town south of Boston Harbor that in every aspect—whaling and fishing—paled in comparison with the much larger whaling city of New Bedford, known as the “City that Lit the World.”

Cohasset is home to the most dangerous and romantic lighthouse in America. Built on a tiny outcropping of ledge off the town’s coast is also the site of the most tragic event in the history of the American lighthouse. Ten years later on April 17, 1851, a mysterious storm swept the lighthouse into the sea.

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Cohasset, Massachusetts | Home to Skinner’s Whale and Fishery

Crustaceous Crumley Lighthouse