Ten Pound Island Light
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Ten Pound Island Light is a historic lighthouse
in Gloucester Harbor in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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The lighthouse was built in 1881 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The United States Coast Guard Light List description is "White conical tower". The actual light is 57 feet (17 meters) above Mean High Water
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Lighthouse
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire, and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways....
in Gloucester Harbor in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Gloucester, Massachusetts
Gloucester is a city on Cape Ann in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is part of Massachusetts' North Shore. The population was 28,789 at the 2010 U.S. Census...
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The lighthouse was built in 1881 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The United States Coast Guard Light List description is "White conical tower". The actual light is 57 feet (17 meters) above Mean High Water
Tide
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the moon and the sun and the rotation of the Earth....
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