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Managing Organization:
Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
Telephone: 856-935-1487
Website: http://northeast.fws.gov/nj/spm.htm
Notes:
This lighthouse was transferred to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1952. It was restored in the 1980s thanks to local preservationists. The keeper's house was demolished after repeated vandalism.
Tower Height: 115
Height of Focal Plane: 105
Description of Tower: Black, hexagonal pyramidal skeletal tower with central cylinder.
This light is not operational
Other Buildings?
Oil house.
Date Established: 1877
Date Present Tower Built: 1877
Date Deactivated: 1950
Date Automated: 1934
Optics: 1877: Fourth order Fresnel lens (removed).
Current Use: Attraction in wildlife refuge.
Open To Public? Yes.
Directions:
Follow Route 49 into Pennsville. The lighthouse is at the corner of Fort Mott & Lighthouse Roads in Pennsville. The lighthouse is open the third Sunday of each month from April to October, 12:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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