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Straitsmouth
State: MA
Year established: 1835
Latitude: 42 deg 39
min 44 sec N
Longitude: 70 deg 35
min 17 sec W
Height above sea level: 46 feet Original construction:
19-foot brick tower Rebuilds:
 1850: 24-foot octagonal stone tower
1896: present 37-foot brick tower
Status:
automated in 1967
Light characteristic:
flashing green every 6 seconds visible for 6 nautical miles; fog signal, 1 blast every 15 seconds
More information:
http://lighthouse.cc/straitsmouth/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. 28-29
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