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Jeffrey's Hook
State: NY
Year established: 1889
Latitude: 40 deg 51
min 1 sec N
Longitude: 73 deg 56
min 49 sec W
Height above sea level: 61 feet Original construction:
2 red lanterns about 10 feet apart on an iron post Rebuilds:
 1921: 40-foot conical red cast iron tower on concrete base, previously served as North Hook Beacon at Sandy Hook, NJ.
Status:
decommissioned in 1947; private aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
flashing white every 3 seconds
Notes:
widely known as the "Little Red Lighthouse"
More information:
http://www.lighthousemuseum.org/nylights/lred.html
http://www.historichousetrust.org/museum.php?msmid=17
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/jeffrey.htm
Bachand, Robert G.,Northeast Lights - Lighthouses and Lightships - Rhode Island to Cape May, NJ, (Norwalk, CT: Sea Sports Publications, 1989), pp. 322-326
U.S. Coast Guard, DHS, LIGHT LIST
Volume I, ATLANTIC COAST. St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey, (Washington, DC:U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004), p. 337
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