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#20 Loggerhead Light Dry Tortugas, Florida Located on Loggerhead Key the 150 foot tower is three miles west of Garden Key. $35,000 was appropriated by Congress on August 18, 1856 for the structure in order to curtail the nmber of ships being lost on the surrounding nearly eighty-square-mile grouping of reefs, shoals, and islands known as the Dry Tortugas. Watercolor |
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#1 Nubble Light House York, Maine In 1602 an English Navigator met with Indians on this Island or 'nubble' at the tip of the Cape Neddick Peninsula. He named it "Savage Rock." Nubble Light was built and dedicated in 1879. Its light, which guides fishermen and recreational boaters alike to safe harbor, is located in a 41 foot tower, 88 feet above the high water mark. |
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#12 Straitsmouth Lighthouse Rockport, Massachusetts This Lighthouse was built on Straitsmouth Island on the New England Coast in 1896 for the inshore navigation of the town of Rockport's harbor in Massachusetts. It is a copy of the Eastern Point Lighthouse built in Gloucester in 1890.
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#13 Twin Lights Rockport, Massachusetts At 150 feet high, the only set of twin lighthouses remaining in America were constructed with New Hampshire granite to warn ships of the Big Salvages and Little Salvages, treacherous rocks located between the two islands of Thacher and Straitsmouth. Splash Watercolor |
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#15 Annisquam Harbor Light Annisquam, Massachusetts This view from the beautiful Wingaersheek Beach of the Annisquam Harbor Lighthouse and boat lane delight beachers. The present light house was built to replace the original on what is known as Wigwam Point. Watercolor |
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#16 Thatcher Island Twin Lights Rockport, Massachusetts At 150 feet high, the only set of twin lighthouses remaining in America were constructed with New Hampshire granite to warn ships of the Big Salvages and Little Salvages, treacherous rocks located between the two islands of Thacher and Straitsmouth. Watercolor |
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#18 Eastern Point Lighthouse Gloucester, Massachusetts This lighthouse was originally built in 1832 and rebuilt in 1890 to signal the entrance to the Gloucester Harbor. It is owned by the United States Coast Guard. You can walk out to the end of the 'Dog Bar Breakwater' built at the location of a treacherous sandbar at the foot of the lighthouse. It is a favorite fishing spot! Watercolor |
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#226 Boston Harbor Light The beacon light on the |
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