Managing Organization: U.S. Coast Guard
Tower Height: 45 Height of Focal Plane: 60 Description of Tower: White, cast iron cylindrical
This light is operational
Earlier Towers? 1823: Lightship; 1828: First tower, destroyed and replaced by lightship; 1850: screw pile type lighthouse. Date Established: 1823 Date Present Tower Built: 1914 Date Automated: 1974 Optics: 1914: Third order Fresnel lens (now at Baymen's Museum in Tuckerton), now solar powered modern optic. Fog Signal: Automated horn. Current Use: Active aid to navigation. Open To Public? No. Directions: Accessible by boat only.
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