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This is a list of the tallest lighthouses, by tower height (as opposed to focal height, i.e. height of the lamp of a lighthouse from water level).The list includes only "traditional lighthouses", as defined by The Lighthouse Directory, i.e. buildings built by navigation safety authorities primarily as an aid to navigation. [1]
Height Lighthouse State Reference 210 feet (64 m) Cape Hatteras Light: North Carolina [1] 191 feet (58 m) Cape Charles Light: Virginia [2] 175 feet (53 m) Ponce de Leon Inlet Light: Florida [3] 171 feet (52 m) Absecon Light: New Jersey [4] 169 feet (52 m) Cape Lookout Light: North Carolina 168 feet (51 m) Fire Island Light: New York 165 feet (50 m)
The location chosen was at the Yarkon River estuary, close to the lighthouse, and the lighthouse served as a navigation aid for the port. Between 1937 and 1938 the Reading Power Station was built nearby. [3] Its tall lighted chimney made the lighthouse somewhat redundant and also obscured the light through a sector.
The lighthouse still uses its original 1868 French-made, 1st order, Fixed Fresnel lens, [1] visible 19 miles (31 km) out to sea. In 1993, the lighthouse was listed in the National Register of Historic Places (reference number #73002340).
The Gay Head Lighthouse Committee worked in conjunction with the town of Aquinnah and the Martha's Vineyard island community to raise approximately $3.5 million to relocate the lighthouse about 129 feet (39 m) from its former location. The lighthouse was relocated by Expert House Movers and the General Contractor, International Chimney. [25]
The primary marketing point of the Lewis lamp was that it used less than half the oil of the prior oil lamps they replaced. The lamp used a similar design to an Argand lamp , adding a parabolic reflector behind the lamp and a magnifying lens made from 4-inch-diameter (100 mm) green bottle glass in front of the lamp.