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Cape Florida
State: FL
Year established: ca. 1825
Latitude: 25 deg 39
min 54 sec N
Longitude: 80 deg 9
min 24 sec W
Height above sea level: 100 feet Original construction:
65-foot tower Rebuilds:
 1846: rebuild of tower, destroyed in 1836 by Seminole Indians
1855: tower raised to 100 ft. above sea level, Fresnel lens installed
1866: current conical brick tower restored after 1861 vandalism
1978: restored by the State of Florida after deactivation in 1878 as part of Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park
Status:
automated in 1978; deactivated 1990-1996; restored by the State in 1996 following Hurricane Andrew; private aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
flashing white every 6 seconds
More information:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/capefl.htm
http://users.erols.com/lthouse/cfhs.htm
http://www.key-biscayne.com/about/light.html
Holland Jr., F. Ross, America's Lighthouses: Their Illustrated History Since 1716, (Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1972), pp. 134-139
McCarthy, Kevin, Florida Lighthouses, (Gainsville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1990), pp. 41-44
U.S. Department of Homeland Security / United States Coast Guard, Light List, Volume 3 Atlantic Coast and Gulf Coast, Little River, South Carolina to Econfina River, Florida, (Washington, DC: GPO, 2004), p. 9
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