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Barnegat
State: NJ
Year established: 1835
Latitude: 39 deg 45
min 52 sec N
Longitude: 74 deg 6
min 22 sec W
Original construction:
40-foot brick tower Rebuilds:
 1858: current 172-foot conical brick tower replaced previous tower destroyed by the sea
Status:
automated in 1927; deactivated in 1944
More information:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/barnegat.htm
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHNJ.html
http://www.njlhs.burlco.org/barn.htm
Bachand, Robert G.,Northeast Lights - Lighthouses and Lightships - Rhode Island to Cape May, NJ, (Norwalk, CT: Sea Sports Publications, 1989), pp. 359-362
Holland Jr., F. Ross, America's Lighthouses: Their Illustrated History Since 1716, (Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1972), pp. 92-94
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