In the 1880's the Lighthouse Board requested $10,000 to build a lighthouse station on Great Duck Island.  In 1888 the request was increased to $30,000, which Congress appropriated in 1889.  Title was secured to an 11 acre plot on the southern tip of the island and construction began in May 1890.
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