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Cape Poge
State: MA
Year established: 1802
Latitude: 41 deg 25
min 14 sec N
Longitude: 70 deg 27
min 4 sec W
Height above sea level: 65 feet Original construction:
35-foot wooden tower Rebuilds:
 1844: new wooden tower
1880: new lighthouse and keepers house
1893: White 35-foot conical tower moved 40-foot farther inland
Moved farther inland 4 times: 1907, 1922, 1960 & 1987
Status:
Automated 1943, active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
Flashing white every 6 seconds, visible for 9 nautical miles
More information:
http://lighthouse.cc/capepoge/index.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. 36-37
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