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Boon Island
State: ME
Year established: 1799
Latitude: 43 deg 7
min 17 sec N
Longitude: 70 deg 28
min 35 sec W
Height above sea level: 137 feet Original construction:
50-foot wooden tower Rebuilds:
 1805: stone beacon
1811: 18-foot tower
1831: storm damage repairs
1855: 133-foot conical masonry tower
Status:
Automated in 1980; active aid to navigation; solar powered in 1993
Light characteristic:
White flash every 5 seconds, visible for 19 nautical miles; fog signal, one blast every 10 seconds
Notes:
The 133-foot tower is the tallest in New England.
More information:
http://lighthouse.cc/boon/index.html
http://lighthousegetaway.com/lights/boon.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. 85-86
Whitney, Dudley, The Lighthouse, (Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society/Little, Brown and Co., 1975), pp. 168-171
US Coast Guard, Public Information Division, Historically Famous Lighthouses, CG-232, (Washington, DC: GPO,1972), p. 27-28 [Light characteristics may not be current]
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