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Portland Head
State: ME
Year established: 1791
Latitude: 43 deg 37
min 23 sec N
Longitude: 70 deg 12
min 28 sec W
Height above sea level: 101 feet Original construction:
present 80-foot brick-lined stone tower
Status:
Automated in 1989; first lighthouse on Maine coast and still active aid to navigation; former keeper's house is now a museum
Light characteristic:
Flashing white every 4 seconds, visible for 24 nautical miles; fog signal 1 blast every 15 seconds
More information:
 http://lighthouse.cc/portlandhead/index.html
http://lighthousegetaway.com/lights/maine2.html
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHME.html
Holland Jr., F. Ross, America's Lighthouses: Their Illustrated History Since 1716, (Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1972), pp. 80-82
Holland Jr., F. Ross, Great American Lighthouses, National Historic Trust Guide, (Washington, DC: The Preservation Press, 1989), pp. 91-92
US Coast Guard, Public Information Division, Historically Famous Lighthouses, CG-232, (Washington, DC: GPO,1972), p. 31 [Light characteristics may not be current]
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