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Managing Organization:
U.S. Coast Guard
Notes:
This lighthouse was modeled after Florida's reef lights. Since the keepers were removed, the tower has been neglected and has fallen into disrepair. It has also developed a list to one side. There is now discussion of dismantling the tower and moving it to the town of Berwick.
Tower Height: 125
Height of Focal Plane: 117
Description of Tower: Octagonal, pyramidal cast iron skeleton tower on screw pile foundation.
Listed on the Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List of endangered lighthouses.
This light is not operational
Date Established: 1859
Date Present Tower Built: 1859
Date Deactivated: 1972
Date Automated: 1929
Optics: 1859: Second order Fresnel lens, later third order Fresnel lens (removed).
Current Use: Abandoned.
Open To Public? no
Museum?
no
Directions:
Accessible by boat only.
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