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the highland light (previously known as cape cod light), an active lighthouse on the cape cod national seashore in north truro, mas*achusetts, on the outer cape code, is the oldest and tallest lighthouse on cape cod, and the 20th lighthouse built in the usa. it is owned by the national park service (a cape cod national seashore property) and cared for by the highland museum and lighthouse, inc., while the united states coast guard operates the light itself. it is listed on the national register of historic places as highland light in 1700, the town of truro, mas*achusetts, nine miles east of race point at the tip of cape cod, began its history under a different name—one it easily earned: “dangerfield.” even in calm weather, fishermen could suddenly find upon approaching land such a. “i found that it would not do to speak of shipwrecks in the area, for almost every family had lost someone at sea,” henry david. thoreau would later write about truro in the december 1864 issue of atlantic monthly. “‘who lives in that house?’ i inquired.. ‘three widows,’ was the reply. the stranger and the inhabitant view the shore with very different eyes. the former may have come to. see and admire the ocean in a storm; but the latter looks on it as the scene where his nearest relatives were wrecked.”. blindingly dense summer fogs lasting till midday that turn (in thoreau’s words) “one’s beard into a wet napkin about the th*oat” provide conditions that to this day challenge even the most experienced mariner. the letter reverend james freemen wrote petitioning for a lighthouse near truro stated that in 1794 more vessels were wrecked on the east shore of truro than in all of cape on may 17th 1796, president george washington signed the bill, along with $8,000 budget, authorizing a wood lighthouse to warn ships about the dangerous coastline between cape ann and nantucket. it was the first light on cape cod, situated on ten acres on the highlands of