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Key West
State: FL
Year established: 1825
Latitude: 24 deg 33
min 2 sec N
Longitude: 81 deg 48
min 3 sec W
Height above sea level: 100 feet Original construction:
65-foot brick tower Rebuilds:
 1849: 45-foot conical masonry lighthouse built 1/2-mile inland to replace the earlier tower destroyed by 1846 hurricane
1873: top of lighthouse raised by 5 feet to top of tower
1894: tower raised 20 feet
Status:
automated in 1915 (using acetylene system); electrified in 1934; deactivated in 1969; acquired by Monroe County in 1972; restored in 1988 by the Key West Art and Historical Society
More information:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/keywest.htm
http://users.erols.com/lthouse/kwhs.htm
http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=366
Holland Jr., F. Ross, America's Lighthouses: Their Illustrated History Since 1716, (Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1972), p. 133
McCarthy, Kevin, Florida Lighthouses, (Gainsville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1990), pp. 69-72
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