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Name: Fort Mifflin Rear Range Light  

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Also known as: Fort Mifflin Bar Cut Rear Range Light

Nearest Town or City:
Billingsport, New Jersey, United States

Location: Delaware River.


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Photo: U.S. Coast Guard

Notes:
The site of this lighthouse eventually became part of a Mobil Oil refinery and the lighthouse was torn down in 1953. There is still a pair of skeleton towers serving as range lights.

Description of Tower: White pyramidal wooden tower with black lantern.

This light is not operational

Date Established: 1880

Date Deactivated: 1950

Date Automated: 1938

Optics: Fifth order Fresnel lens.

Current Use: Destroyed.

Keepers: Clyde S. Harrison (c. late 1940s)


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