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Prospect Harbor
State: ME
Year established: 1848
Latitude: 44 deg 24
min 11 sec N
Longitude: 68 deg 0
min 46 sec W
Height above sea level: 42 feet Original construction:
granite tower attached to keeper's house; deactivated between 1859 and 1870 Rebuilds:
 1891: present 38-foot conical wooden tower
Status:
Automated in 1951; active aid to navigation, now on Naval installation grounds
Light characteristic:
flashing red with 2 white sectors, visible for 7 nautical miles
More information:
http://lighthouse.cc/prospectharbor/index.html
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHME.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. 18-19
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