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Managing Organization:
U.S. Coast Guard
Notes:
Steel skeleton towers now hold the active Schuylkill River Range Lights.
Height of Focal Plane: 44
Description of Tower: Steel skeletal tower.
This light is operational
Other Buildings?
Wood frame keeper's dwelling, badly damaged by fire in 1923.
Earlier Towers?
1875: Square structure, 8 feet high, light 31.5 feet above sea level. 1897: Post light. Rebuilt 1904, 1912, 1920. 1920: White slatted daymark on square, pyramidal skeleton tower.
Date Established: 1875
Date Automated: c. 1912
Current Use: Active aid to navigation.
Keepers: John Sheer (1875), Matthew Smith (1875-1876), Thomas Bills (1876-1881), Robert Sansom (1881), William T. Maltman (1881-c. 1908)
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