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Borden Flats
State: MA
Year established: 1881
Latitude: 41 deg 42
min 16 sec N
Longitude: 71 deg 10
min 28 sec W
Height above sea level: 47 feet Original construction:
present 50-foot cast iron tower
Status:
Electrified in 1957, automated in 1963; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
Flashing white every 2.5 seconds, visible for 11 nautical miles; fog signal, one blast every 10 seconds
More information:
 http://lighthouse.cc/bordenflats/index.html
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHMA.html
Office of the Light House Board, List of Lights and Fog Signals on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States, (Washington, DC: GPO, 1895), pp. 44-45
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