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Black Rock (Fayerweather I.)
State: CT
Year established: 1808
Latitude: 41 deg 8
min 33 sec N
Longitude: 73 deg 13
min 3 sec W
Original construction:
40-foot octagonal wooden tower Rebuilds:
 1823: present 47-foot white stone tower
Status:
discontinued in 1933
More information:
http://lighthouse.cc/fayerweather/index.html
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/blackrk.htm
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHCT.html
Holland Jr., F. Ross, Great American Lighthouses, National Historic Trust Guide, (Washington, DC: The Preservation Press, 1989), pp. 76
Bachand, Robert G.,Northeast Lights - Lighthouses and Lightships - Rhode Island to Cape May, NJ, (Norwalk, CT: Sea Sports Publications, 1989), pp. 166-168
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