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Description
English: Erie Harbor North Pier Light in an early postcard

published 1915-1930 without copyright notice

Smithsonian metadata

Erie Harbor Pierhead

State: PA

Year established: 1830

Latitude: 42 deg 9 min 24 sec N

Longitude: 80 deg 4 min 18 sec W

Height above sea level: 42 feet

Original construction:

wooden tower

Rebuilds:

1858: present 34-foot square cast-iron tower replaced original destroyed by ship collision

Status:

active aid to navigation

Light characteristic:

flashing red every 2.5 seconds visible for 7 nautical miles

More information:

http://www.lighthousedigest.com/database/uniquelighthouse.cfm?value=477

http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/pa.htm
U.S. Department of Homeland Security / United States Coast Guard, Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River above the St. Regis River, (Washington, DC: GPO, 2004), p. 39
Date
Source http://amhistory.si.edu/lighthouses/object.cfm?id=26 Smithsonian Institution
Author City News Agency, Eire, Pennsylvania

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