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2. Dry Tortugas Light - Wikipedia

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   Undated image of the lighthouse with black and white exterior paint. In 1856, Capt. Daniel Phineas Woodbury supervised construction of the lighthouse, based on an 1855 design by Capt. Horatio Wright, and it became operational in 1858. [4] When originally constructed the walls of the tower were left its natural, yellowish-red brick color.

3. Harwich Lighthouse (painting) - Wikipedia

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   Harwich Lighthouse is an 1820 landscape painting by the British painter John Constable. [1] It depicts a scene on the coast of Essex in England featuring Harwich Low Lighthouse. The lighthouse was maintained by Constable's patron General Rebow whose estate at Wivenhoe Park he also painted. [2] Version of the painting in the Yale Center for ...

4. Milwaukee Pierhead Light - Wikipedia

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   Milwaukee Pierhead Light ; Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Coordinates: 1]: Tower; Constructed: 1872: Foundation: concrete pier: Construction: Steel: Automated: circa 1939: Height: 41 feet (12 m) [2]: Shape: Frustum of a cone, decagonal lantern room: Markings: Red with black lantern and parapet [4]: Heritage: National Register of Historic Places listed place : Light; First lit: 1872: Focal ...

5. White Shoal Light, Michigan - Wikipedia

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   The highly visible diagonal Daymark paint job, sometimes described as red and white 'candy cane stripe', is the only 'barber pole' lighthouse in the United States. [5] [27] However, black and white helical daymarks do appear on Cape Hatteras Light and St. Augustine Light. Consequently, the State of Michigan has used it as an icon to generate ...

6. Thomas Point Shoal Light - Wikipedia

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   A stone lighthouse was constructed in 1825 on shore at Thomas Point [3] by John Donahoo, Thomas Point Light.It was replaced in 1838 by another stone tower. The point was subject to continuing erosion (which would eventually bring down the lighthouse on the point in 1894), [6] and in 1873 Congress appropriated $20,000 for the construction of a screw-pile structure out in the bay, Thomas Point ...

7. Milwaukee Breakwater Light - Wikipedia

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   Milwaukee Breakwater Light ; Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Coordinates: 1]: Tower; Constructed: 1926: Foundation: Concrete: Construction: 1 ⁄ 4 inch (6.4 mm) steel plate, steel frame, cast iron lantern: Automated: 1966 [2]: Height: 53 feet (16 m) [3]: Shape: Square on square house, topped by round lantern: Markings: white with black lantern & parapet: Heritage: National Register of ...