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Managing Organization:
U.S. Coast Guard
Tower Height: 66
Height of Focal Plane: 77
Description of Tower: Wooden square pyramidal skeletal tower.
This light is operational
Earlier Towers?
1857: Octagonal brick tower, destroyed by hurricane in 1893.
Date Established: 1857
Date Present Tower Built: 1897
Date Deactivated: 1859-1865
Date Automated: c. 1945
Optics: 1857: Fourth order Fresnel lens, now 200 mm optic.
Current Use: Active aid to navigation.
Open To Public? No.
Keepers: Nicholas Johnson (1859-1859), Jacob Brankhorst (1865-?).
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