Fishermen's Memorial Lighthouse

The "lighthouse" part of the Fishermen's Memorial is, of course, ceremonial, being located atop the First Church of Rhode Island quite a ways into the city of Providence proper and, most decidedly, landlocked. Instead, a real live burning fire, yes, even these days, is lit each evening in the tower to commemorate the deaths of the 246 fishermen, sailors, lobstermen, and other Providence men of the sea who have, since about 1750 when this sort of thing began to be counted, been lured into the icy waters of Narragansett Bay by the fabled New England sirens who are said to dwell there, and drowned.