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Jordan Point
State: VA
Year established: 1855
Latitude: 37 deg 18
min 43 sec N
Longitude: 77 deg 12
min 56 sec W
Original construction:
white keeper’s quarters with a light on the red roof of the structure Rebuilds:
 1875: replaced because of shore erosion by 28-foot square pyramidal wooden bell tower with light on top
Status:
sold in 1927 and abandoned in 1930; replaced in 1941 by steel skeleton tower as Jordan Pt. rear range light
More information:
http://www.cheslights.org/heritage/jordanpoint.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. 84-85
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