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2. Marblehead Light (Ohio) - Wikipedia

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   Marblehead Light (Ohio) /  41.536444°N 82.711722°W  / 41.536444; -82.711722. Marblehead Lighthouse in Marblehead, Ohio, United States, is the oldest lighthouse in continuous operation on the American side of the Great Lakes. [3] [4] [5] It has guided sailors safely along the rocky shores of Marblehead Peninsula since 1822, and is an ...

3. South Bass Island Light - Wikipedia

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   South Bass Island Light. / 41.6290; -82.8415. South Bass Island Light is a lighthouse on the southern end of its eponymous island in Lake Erie. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on April 5, 1990 [1] and is thought to be the only lighthouse in the United States owned by a university - Ohio State.

4. Lighthouse keeper - Wikipedia

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   Marine occupation. A lighthouse keeper or lightkeeper is a person responsible for tending and caring for a lighthouse, particularly the light and lens in the days when oil lamps and clockwork mechanisms were used. Lighthouse keepers were sometimes referred to as " wickies " because of their job trimming the wicks. [1]

5. List of lighthouses in Ohio - Wikipedia

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   Conneaut West Breakwater Lighthouse: Conneaut: N/A 1936 1972 Active 375mm Unknown Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Light (Originally: West Pierhead) Fairport Harbor: 1911 (Former) 1925 (Current) Unknown Active (Also a private home) Unknown 56 ft (17 m)

6. Portland Head Light - Wikipedia

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   Portland Head Light is a historic lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The light station sits on a head of land at the entrance of the primary shipping channel into Portland Harbor, which is within Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine. Completed in 1791, it is the oldest lighthouse in Maine. The light station is automated, and the tower, beacon, and ...

7. Ashtabula Harbor Light - Wikipedia

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   The first light marking Ashtabula's harbor was built in 1836, a short hexagonal wooden tower standing on a wooden crib just off the eastern pier. [5] This used the oil lamps typical of the time and remained in service until replaced by a new tower on the west pier, a pyramidal tower with clapboard sides. [6] [7] This change was prompted by ...