 Then in 1928 a small skeleton tower was erected next to the house, sporting an acetylene lamp.The station survived the devastating hurricane of 1938 and was manned until 1960, when the light was automated and the house demolished.In 1969 construction of the Newport Bridge, which passes immediately adjacent to the rocks, rendered the light useless, and the tower was likewise removed, leaving the tiny oil house as the sole remaining trace of the station.