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South Bass Island
State: OH
Year established: 1897
Latitude: 41 deg 37
min 44 sec N
Longitude: 82 deg 50
min 29 sec W
Height above sea level: 74 feet Original construction:
60-foot red brick tower attached to 2 1/2 story brick dwelling Rebuilds:
 1962: the existing structure was decommissioned and the light automated and transferred to a skeletal steel light tower on the property
Status:
site is owned by Ohio State University
More information:
http://www.osu.edu/cookecastle/lighthouse_01.html
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/sbass.htm
Berger, Todd R., Lighthouses of the Great Lakes, (Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, 2002), p. 143
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