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West Chop
State: MA
Year established: 1818
Latitude: 41 deg 28
min 50 sec N
Longitude: 70 deg 35
min 59 sec W
Height above sea level: 84 feet Original construction:
25-foot rubblestone tower Rebuilds:
 1846: new house and tower at nearby site
1891: present 45-foot cylindrical brick tower on stone foundation
Status:
automated in 1976; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
White light occulting every four seconds with red sector, visible for 10 nautical miles; fog signal 1 blast every 30 seconds
More information:
http://lighthouse.cc/westchop/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. 38-39
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. 125
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