One of the men was unable to swim and was lost in the waves. Keeper Paul saw the accident and immediately launched his boat. As the men attempted to change places, the boat overturned. On August 3, 1912, two men were passing near the lighthouse in a boat. Paul became keeper in July 1912 and remained at Borden Flats Light until 1927. Rainwater was collected in gutters and deposited into a cistern in the structure's basement level, providing the keeper's water supply. There are five stories above the basement, including the lantern room- two levels were used as living quarters. "Falling Waters." Somewhere along the way, it became known by it's new moniker named after the flats upon she was built. "Quequechan" is a Native-American word meaning It is said the Light was first named Quequechan Light, after the Quequechan River on which the city of Fall River was built. The brick and cast-iron tower, which doubled as living quarters for its keeper, was erected on the caisson, and the lighthouse went into service on October 1, 1881, with a fourth-order Fresnel lens producing a fixed red light 47 feet above mean high water. The components of the superstructure were delivered in July 1881. On June 16, 1880, a sum of $25,000 was appropriated for a lighthouse to be built on Borden Flats, and construction soon commenced.Ī cylindrical cast-iron caisson filled with boulders and concrete was sunk in place on the reef. The 1872 annual report of the Lighthouse Board described a "stone beacon, with iron column and day-mark." The city's location allowed easy travel by water to Providence, Newport, Boston, New York City and beyond.įor a number of years before the lighthouse was built to warn ships of the dangerous reef at the mouth of the Taunton River, (eventually named the Borden Flats,) an unlighted day marker warned captains of the reef. At one time, more than 100 cotton mills in Fall River employed over 30,000 people. T he city of Fall River, situated where the Taunton River flows into Mount Hope Bay, was known as the "Textile Capital of the World" in the nineteenth century.
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