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Plum Island
State: NY
Year established: 1827
Latitude: 41 deg 10
min 25 sec N
Longitude: 72 deg 12
min 41 sec W
Original construction:
30-foot stone tower Rebuilds:
 1870: replaced by 55-foot wooden tower atop granite house
Status:
decommissioned in 1978 due to erosion of shoreline, replaced by automated light on dolphin
More information:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/plumisl.htm
http://www.lilighthousesociety.org/projects/saveplumisland/default.htm#History%20of%20the%20Plum%20Island%20Light%20Station
http://eastendlighthouses.org/piUpdate.htm
Bachand, Robert G.,Northeast Lights - Lighthouses and Lightships - Rhode Island to Cape May, NJ, (Norwalk, CT: Sea Sports Publications, 1989), pp. 222-225
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