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Butler Flats postcard face - click to enlarge

Butler Flats postcard obverse - click to enlarge

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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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