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Windmill Point (VA)
State: VA
Year established: 1869
Latitude: 37 deg 35
min 49 sec N
Longitude: 76 deg 14
min 10 sec W
Original construction:
white hexagonal cottage on brown screwpile foundation Rebuilds:
 1905: stone added around pilings for additional support
1921: ice damage repaired
Status:
automated in 1954; dismantled in 1965 and replaced by automatic beacon
More information:
http://www.cheslights.org/heritage/windmillpt.htm
Office of the Light House Board, List of Lights and Fog Signals on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States, (Washington, DC: GPO, 1895), pp. 88-89
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