With its rich maritime history, it is only right that Lunenburg has a lighthouse legacy that predates the 1951 tower that today is perched at the end of the Battery Point Breakwater. The first lighthouse at Lunenburg was built on Battery Point and consisted of a one-and-a-half-story dwelling with a twelve-sided lantern room situated atop the flat section of its roof. The lantern room, which had a diameter of eight feet, originally housed five lamps set in twelve-inch reflectors.