Butler Flats
State: MA
Year established: 1898
Latitude: 41 deg 36
min 14 sec N
Longitude: 70 deg 53
min 40 sec W
Height above sea level: 53 feet Original construction:
present cylindrical brick lighthouse atop a cast iron embedded caisson base
Status:
automated 1974; private aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
Flashing white every 4 seconds
More information:
http://lighthouse.cc/butler/index.html
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHMA.html
Holland Jr., F. Ross, Great American Lighthouses, National Historic Trust Guide, (Washington, DC: The Preservation Press, 1989), p. 112

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