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Beavertail
State: RI
Year established: 1749
Latitude: 41 deg 26
min 58 sec N
Longitude: 71 deg 23
min 58 sec W
Height above sea level: 64 feet Original construction:
69-foot tall wooden tower, 24-feet in diameter at base Rebuilds:
 1754: 64-foot tall brick and stone tower
1857: present square granite tower, upper half white, attached to SE angle of dwelling
Status:
automated 1972; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
Flashing white every 6 seconds, visible for 15 nautical miles; fog signal, I blast every 30 seconds
More information:
http://lighthouse.cc/beavertail/index.html
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHRI.html
Bachand, Robert G.,Northeast Lights - Lighthouses and Lightships - Rhode Island to Cape May, NJ, (Norwalk, CT: Sea Sports Publications, 1989), pp. 68-71
Holland Jr., F. Ross, Great American Lighthouses, National Historic Trust Guide, (Washington, DC: The Preservation Press, 1989), pp. 123-124
Holland Jr., F. Ross, America's Lighthouses: Their Illustrated History Since 1716, (Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1972), pp. 73-74
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