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Marblehead (Ohio)
State: OH
Year established: 1821
Latitude: 40 deg 32
min 11 sec N
Longitude: 82 deg 42
min 42 sec W
Height above sea level: 67 feet Original construction:
50-foot limestone tower Rebuilds:
 1880: Covered with stucco and painted white
1897: tower raised from 55 to 65 feet using brick
1969: stucco removed to show the original stonework and brickwork
Status:
electrified in 1923; automated in 1958; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
flashing green every 6 seconds, visible for 11 nautical miles
Notes:
the name was changed in 1870 to "Sandusky Bay Light"; claimed to be oldest continuously operating light on the Great Lakes; property owned and maintained by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources
More information:
http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/parks/parks/marblehead.htm
http://www.portclinton.org/attractions/The%20Marblehead%20Lighthouse.html
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/marblehd.htm
Roberts, Bruce and Jones, Ray, Great Lakes Lighthouses Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Superior, (Old Saybrook, CT: The Globe Pequot Press, 1994) pp. 49-50
Berger, Todd R., Lighthouses of the Great Lakes, (Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, 2002), p. 143
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