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Little River
State: ME
Year established: 1847
Latitude: 44 deg 39
min 3 sec N
Longitude: 67 deg 11
min 31 sec W
Height above sea level: 57 feet Original construction:
stone lighthouse tower with attached keeper's house Rebuilds:
 1876: 35-foot conical brick-lined cast iron tower
Status:
Automated in 1975; active aid to navigation;: replaced by light on skeleton tower in 1980; lighthouse reactivated in 2001 after restoration by American Lighthouse Foundation
Light characteristic:
White flash every 6 seconds, visible for 13 nautical miles; fog signal, 1 blast every 10 seconds
More information:
http://lighthouse.cc/littleriver/index.html
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/littlerv.htm
http://www.lighthousefoundation.org/towernotes2.cfm
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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