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Bridgeport Harbor
State: CT
Year established: 1851
Latitude: 41 deg 9
min 24 sec N
Longitude: 73 deg 10
min 48 sec W
Original construction:
octagonal tower on iron pilings Rebuilds:
 1871: White tower and dwelling, on red piles
Status:
replaced by skeleton tower in 1953, and destroyed by fire during dismantling for reassembly on shore
More information:
http://lighthouse.cc/bridgeport/index.html
Bachand, Robert G.,Northeast Lights - Lighthouses and Lightships - Rhode Island to Cape May, NJ, (Norwalk, CT: Sea Sports Publications, 1989), pp. 160-164
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