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Waackaack (rear)
State: NJ
Year established: 1856
Latitude: 40 deg 26
min 39 sec N
Longitude: 74 deg 8
min 10 sec W
Original construction:
96-foot wooden tower Rebuilds:
 1860's: replaced by a 68-foot iron tower
1894: replaced by a 106-foot skeletal iron tower with a central iron cylinder enclosing a circular stairway
Status:
dismantled in the 1950's
More information:
http://njlhs.burlco.org/waackaack.htm
http://historical.maptech.com/getImage.asp?fname=sndy01nw.jpg&state=NJ
Bachand, Robert G.,Northeast Lights - Lighthouses and Lightships - Rhode Island to Cape May, NJ, (Norwalk, CT: Sea Sports Publications, 1989), pp. 282-284, 289-290
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. 60-61
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