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Cuttyhunk
State: MA
Year established: 1823
Latitude: 41 deg 24
min 52 sec N
Longitude: 70 deg 56
min 59 sec W
Height above sea level: 63 feet Original construction:
25-foot stone tower Rebuilds:
 1860: light atop 2-story keepers house replaced old tower
1891: 45-foot white, conical tower, covered way to dwelling
1947: lighthouse demolished
Status:
1947: skeleton tower replaced lighthouse; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
continuous quick-flashing white, visible for 8 miles
More information:
http://lighthouse.cc/cuttyhunk/index.html
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. 40-41
U.S. Department of Homeland Security / United States Coast Guard, Light List, Volume 1 Atlantic Coast, St. Croix River, ME to Shrewsbury River, NJ, (Washington, DC: GPO, 2003), p. 148
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