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2. Green Island Light (Wisconsin) - Wikipedia

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   Location: Green Island in Green Bay: Coordinates: 1]: Tower; Constructed: 1863: Foundation: stone: Construction: brick: Automated: 1933: Height: 48 feet (15 m): Shape: two story house with tower on roof: Light; First lit: 1863: Deactivated: 1956: Focal height: 55 feet (17 m): Lens: fourth order Fresnel lens: Range: 7 nmi (13 km; 8.1 mi) : Characteristic: Fl W 6s : The Green Island Light is a ...

3. Grassy Island Range Lights - Wikipedia

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   Added to NRHP. January 12, 2005. The Grassy Island Range Lights are a pair of lighthouses which were originally established to guide traffic through the channel into Green Bay harbor. They were deactivated and moved to shore as part of a channel-widening project.

4. Green Bay Harbor Entrance Light - Wikipedia

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   The Green Bay Harbor Entrance Light is an offshore lighthouse near Green Bay, Wisconsin. Located 10 miles (16 km) from the mouth of the Fox River, it was erected to signal the entrance to Green Bay . The shipping channel approaching the Fox River in Green Bay was changed a number of times in order to accommodate vessels of increasing draft.

5. Gay Head Light - Wikipedia

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   1796–1838 – Gay Head Light – the first lighthouse on Martha's Vineyard. When the first Congress of the newly formed United States government met in 1789, one of its first acts was to assume responsibility for lighthouses and other aids to navigation along the country's coastline. For the next twenty-five years, design and construction of ...

6. Frank Drew (lighthouse keeper) - Wikipedia

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   Frank Albert Drew (1864–1931) was a lighthouse keeper. He was Assistant Keeper Pilot Island Light from 1899 to 1903, First Assistant Keeper, Green Island Light-Station from 1903 to 1909, and Keeper of Green Island Light-Station from 1904 to 1929. The United States Coast Guard coastal buoy tender Frank Drew (WLM-557) based in Portsmouth ...

7. Presque Isle Light - Wikipedia

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   83002242 [1] The Presque Isle Light, historically nicknamed the "Flash Light", is a lighthouse on the shore of Lake Erie in U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [2] It is one of three lighthouses in Erie, along with the Erie Land Light and the North Pier Light. The lighthouse is situated on the northern shoreline of Presque Isle State Park overlooking ...