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Block Island North Light at Sandy Point is a historic Rhode Island lighthouse whose present brown granite and iron tower was built in 1867, the fourth light on a site first established in 1829. Its 55-foot octagonal tower carries a fourth-order Fresnel lens that flashes white every five seconds and reaches 11 nautical miles. Deactivated in 1973, it passed to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, then to New Shoreham in 1984 after years of neglect. Restoration revived it as both a working aid to navigation and a museum, with major work continuing through its 2010 relighting.
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New Shoreham, Rhode Island · United States
