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The whaling industry & its practitioners had a home in the village of Woods Hole from 1828 to 1864.The Candle House was constructed on this site in 1836 at the height of the whaling industry & was the site at which whale oil was made into spermaceti candles. The building was also used as a shop & supply house. With the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania in 1858, the whaling industry went into decline & this activity ceased. In 1903, the land & the Candle House were bought by the Marine Biological Laboratory & is currently used as administrative offices.