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Managing Organization:
Canadian Coast Guard
Notes:
The range light that operates in tandem with this lighthouse is on a skeleton tower about 1,770 feet away.
Tower Height: 29
Height of Focal Plane: 52
Characteristic and Range: Fixed green.
Description of Tower: Square white tower attached to fog signal building, with vertical red stripe.
This light is operational
Earlier Towers?
1851: Light shown from a window in the keeper's house (burned down in 1883). 1883: Square wooden pyramidal lighthouse with attached dwelling.
Date Established: 1851
Date Present Tower Built: 1961
Current Use: Active aid to navigation.
Open To Public? Grounds only.
Directions:
From Route 101, take Exit 9. Turn right on Bluff Road, then turn left onto Lighthouse Road and follow to the lighthouse.
Keepers: Robert King (1851-?); ? Lockhart (?), James Rathbun (c. early 1860s), Charles Edwin Rathbun (1865-1879), Susan Munro (C.E.Rathbun's wife, 1879-1921), William A. Crosby (?)
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