Notes: Side-by-side steel skeleton towers now serve as the front range light for the Tinicum Island Range and the Fort Mifflin Bar Cut Range. Description of Tower: 1880: Tower attached to dwelling, with two lanterns marking separate ranges. 1887: Separate square wooden tower.
This light is not operational
Date Established: 1880 Date Deactivated: 1982 Optics: 1880: Two fifth order Fresnel lenses. Current Use: Destroyed. Keepers: Joseph H. Preston (1880-1890), Clyde S. Harrison (c. 1940s)
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