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Fort Pickering (Winter Island)
State: MA
Year established: 1871
Latitude: 42 deg 31
min 35 sec N
Longitude: 70 deg 51
min 59 sec W
Height above sea level: 28 feet Original construction:
32-foot brown conical brick-lined iron tower with white base; brown bridge to shore.
Status:
discontinued in 1969, refurbished, automated, and relit as private aid to navigation in 1983
Light characteristic:
flashing white every 4 seconds,
More information:
 http://www.lighthouse.cc/fortpickering/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. 30-31
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. 91
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