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Owls Head
State: ME
Year established: 1825
Latitude: 44 deg 5
min 31 sec N
Longitude: 69 deg 2
min 38 sec W
Height above sea level: 100 feet Original construction:
30-foot brick tower
Status:
Automated in 1989; active aid to navigation; lighthouse grounds now a state park
Light characteristic:
Fixed white light visible for 16 nautical miles; fog horn blasts twice every 20 seconds
More information:
 http://lighthouse.cc/owls/index.html
http://lighthousegetaway.com/lights/maine4.html
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHME.html
Holland Jr., F. Ross, Great American Lighthouses, National Historic Trust Guide, (Washington, DC: The Preservation Press, 1989), p. 94
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