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Eastern Point
State: MA
Year established: 1832
Latitude: 42 deg 34
min 49 sec N
Longitude: 70 deg 39
min 52 sec W
Height above sea level: 57 feet Original construction:
30-foot stone tower Rebuilds:
 1890: present 36-foot white brick conical tower, covered way to dwelling.
Status:
electrified in 1897; automated in 1985; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
flashing white every 5 seconds, visible for 24 nautical miles
More information:
http://www.lighthouse.cc/easternpoint/index.html
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHMA.html
Holland Jr., F. Ross, Great American Lighthouses, National Historic Trust Guide, (Washington, DC: The Preservation Press, 1989), pp. 106-107
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. 28-29
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