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Hospital Point (Beverly Harbor)
State: MA
Year established: 1871
Latitude: 42 deg 32
min 47 sec N
Longitude: 70 deg 51
min 21 sec W
Height above sea level: 70 feet Original construction:
present 45-foot white brick pyramidal tower.
Status:
automated in 1947; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
fixed white
Notes:
1927: became the Hospital Pt. Range Front Light, with the Rear Range Light 127 feet high in the steeple of the Beverly First Baptist Church (noted on chart)
More information:
 http://www.lighthouse.cc/hospitalpoint/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
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