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Navesink
State: NJ
Year established: 1828
Latitude: 40 deg 23
min 47 sec N
Longitude: 73 deg 59
min 9 sec W
Height above sea level: 246 feet Original construction:
two rubble towers 100 yards apart Rebuilds:
 1862: 2 current 73-foot brownstone towers built; octagonal north tower, square south tower
Status:
decommisioned in 1949; museum, private aid to navigation operating from April 15 - November 15
Light characteristic:
Occulting white every 10 seconds (5+ seconds white, 5- seconds dark)
Notes:
In 1841, the first Fresnel lens in the U.S. was installed in the south tower; in 1883, the station became the first first-order U.S. light to be fueled by kerosene; in 1898, the oil lamps were replaced by the first electric lamp in a US lighthouse
More information:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/navesink.htm
http://njlhs.burlco.org/twinlights.htm
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. 253-259
Holland Jr., F. Ross, America's Lighthouses: Their Illustrated History Since 1716, (Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1972), pp. 90-91
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. 68-69
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