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Minot's Ledge
State: MA
Year established: 1850
Latitude: 42 deg 16
min 11 sec N
Longitude: 70 deg 45
min 33 sec W
Height above sea level: 85 feet Original construction:
light and keepers quarters atop multi-legged iron pilings, destroyed by storm in 1851 Rebuilds:
 1860: present 114-foot granite tower
Status:
automated in1947; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
flashing white 1-4-3; fog signal one blast every 10 seconds
Notes:
American Society of Civil Engineers Landmark
More information:
http://lighthouse.cc/minots/index.html
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHMA.html
Holland Jr., F. Ross, America's Lighthouses: Their Illustrated History Since 1716, (Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1972), p. 94-97
Whitney, Dudley, The Lighthouse, (Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society/Little, Brown and Co., 1975), pp. 44-46
Holland Jr., F. Ross, Great American Lighthouses, National Historic Trust Guide, (Washington, DC: The Preservation Press, 1989), p. 103-105
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