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Wood Island
State: ME
Year established: 1808
Latitude: 43 deg 27
min 24 sec N
Longitude: 70 deg 19
min 44 sec W
Height above sea level: 71 feet Original construction:
47-foot stone tower Rebuilds:
 1858: present tower and dwelling refurbished
Status:
Automated in 1986; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
flashes white and green alternately every 10 seconds, visible from 16 nautical miles; fog signal blasts twice every 30 seconds
Notes:
The Wood Island Light is the second-oldest in Maine.
More information:
http://www.lighthouse.cc/woodisland/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. 26-27
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