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Lighthouse Point (New Haven)
State: CT
Year established: 1805
Latitude: 41 deg 14
min 56 sec N
Longitude: 72 deg 54
min 13 sec W
Height above sea level: 70 feet Original construction:
30-foot octagonal wooden tower Rebuilds:
 1847 present 70-foot octagonal pyramidal brick-lined brownstone tower
Status:
replaced by the Southwest Ledge Light and extinguished in 1877
More information:
http://lighthouse.cc/newhaven/index.html
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/fivemile.htm
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. 139-142
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