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Managing Organization:
U.S. Coast Guard
Notes:
This lighthouse is almost a duplicate of Fowey Rocks Light. It was included in a series of postage stamps depicting American lighthouses in the 1980s. Tower Height: 109 Height of Focal Plane: 109 Description of Tower: Skeletal octagonal pyramidal tower with integral keeper's quarters. Listed on the Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List of endangered lighthouses.
This light is operational
Date Established: 1880 Date Present Tower Built: 1880 Date Automated: 1963 Optics: 1880: First order Fresnel lens; now VRB-25, solar powered. Current Use: Active aid to navigation. Open To Public? no Keepers: William Bates (1880-?)
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