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Plum Beach
State: RI
Year established: 1899
Latitude: 41 deg 31
min 49 sec N
Longitude: 71 deg 24
min 19 sec W
Original construction:
53-foot conical tower, lower half white, upper half brown; on black, cylindrical pier; brown lantern.
Status:
discontinued in 1941
Notes:
restoration of the lighhouse is underway by a private group, "Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse"
More information:
 http://lighthouse.cc/plumbeach/index.html
Bachand, Robert G.,Northeast Lights - Lighthouses and Lightships - Rhode Island to Cape May, NJ, (Norwalk, CT: Sea Sports Publications, 1989), pp. 45-47
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