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Marblehead (Mass)
State: MA
Year established: 1835
Latitude: 42 deg 30
min 20 sec N
Longitude: 70 deg 50
min 1 sec W
Height above sea level: 130 feet Original construction:
A white brick tower 20 feet high, attached to keeper's house by covered walkway Rebuilds:
 1883: light atop 100-foot guyed mast to replace light obscured by adjacent buildings
1896: 105-foot skeleton tower; brown to gallery, black above; elevated walk to dwelling
Status:
automated in 1960; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
fixed green visible for 7 nautical miles
More information:
http://www.lighthouse.cc/marblehead/index.html
Holland Jr., F. Ross, Great American Lighthouses, National Historic Trust Guide, (Washington, DC: The Preservation Press, 1989), p. 107-108
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