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Dunkirk
State: NY(GL)
Year established: 1826
Latitude: 42 deg 29
min 38 sec N
Longitude: 79 deg 21
min 14 sec W
Height above sea level: 82 feet Original construction:
rubblestone tower Rebuilds:
 1875: current square 61-foot brick tower built to encase unstable original tower connected to new keeper's house
Status:
automated in 1960: active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
alternating 2 seconds of white and 2 seconds dark, visible for 16 nautical miles
Notes:
leased to Dunkirk Lighthouse and Veterans Park Museum; ,keeper's house is used as museum
More information:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/dunkirk.htm
http://www.lighthouseclothing.com/database/uniquelighthouse.cfm?value=377
http://www.dunkirklighthouse.com/history.htm
Roberts, Bruce and Jones, Ray, Great Lakes Lighthouses Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Superior, (Old Saybrook, CT: The Globe Pequot Press, 1994) pp. 42-43
Berger, Todd R., Lighthouses of the Great Lakes, (Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, 2002), p. 145
U.S. Lighthouse Board, List of Lights, Buoys, and Daymarks of the United States on the Northern Lakes and Rivers, (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1898)
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
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