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Absecon
State: NJ
Year established: 1857
Latitude: 31 deg 21
min 59 sec N
Longitude: 74 deg 24
min 51 sec W
Height above sea level: 167 feet Original construction:
169-foot conical brick tower Rebuilds:
 1876-1878: protective jetties built to control erosion
Status:
Decommissioned 1933; diminished usefulness due to interference by Atlantic City lights
More information:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/absecon.htm
http://www.abseconlighthouse.org/
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHNJ.html
Bachand, Robert G.,Northeast Lights - Lighthouses and Lightships - Rhode Island to Cape May, NJ, (Norwalk, CT: Sea Sports Publications, 1989), pp. 367-370
Holland Jr., F. Ross, America's Lighthouses: Their Illustrated History Since 1716, (Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1972), p. 100
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