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Huron
State: OH
Year established: 1835
Latitude: 41 deg 24
min 16 sec N
Longitude: 82 deg 32
min 37 sec W
Height above sea level: 80 feet Original construction:
Pyramidal wooden structure; destroyed by a gale in 1854 Rebuilds:
 1857: replaced by iron lighthouse
1936: existing art-deco 72-foot square tower of white steel plates on a concrete foundation atop a square fog signal building.
Status:
automated in 1972; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
alternating 3 seconds red and 3 seconds dark, visible for 12 nautical miles; fog signal 2 blasts every 30 seconds
More information:
http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=279
http://www.cyberlights.com/lh/ohio/huron.htm
Berger, Todd R., Lighthouses of the Great Lakes, (Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, 2002), p. 143
U.S. Department of Homeland Security / United States Coast Guard, Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River above the St. Regis River, (Washington, DC: GPO, 2004), p. 49
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