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Cross Ledge Beacon
State: NJ
Year established: 1855
Latitude: 39 deg 9
min 47 sec N
Longitude: 75 deg 14
min 12 sec W
Height above sea level: 38 feet Original construction:
screw-pile lighthouse project destroyed by ice floes before completion; replaced by lightship Rebuilds:
 1875: two-story wooden lighthouse built on a granite foundation pier
Status:
decommissioned in 1907 - abandoned, only foundation remains
More information:
http://www.njlhs.burlco.org/crossledge.htm
Office of the Light House Board, List of Lights and Fog Signals on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States, (Washington, DC: GPO, 1895), pp. 74-75
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