sentences:  The government appropriated $5000 for the light station in February 1807 and contracted Abisha Woodward to construct the light.The first Black Rock Harbor Light was a 40-foot (12.1 meter) octagonal wooden tower built in 1808.Abisha Woodward, who previously constructed the 1801 New London Harbor Light and the 1802 Falkner Island Light, constructed a wooden tower that was lit and made operational by October 1808.