Dumpling Rock
State: MA
Year established: 1829
Latitude: 41 deg 32
min 18 sec N
Longitude: 70 deg 55
min 17 sec W
Original construction:
Two-story house with lantern on roof Rebuilds:
1889: Square white frame tower attached to NE corner of dwelling
1938: nearly destroyed by hurricane
Status:
1942: deactivated, replaced by skeleton tower
More information:
http://lighthouse.cc/dumplingrock/index.html
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHMA.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

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