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Black Rock Light Station

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4 acres

salt marsh

50'

1/2 enclosed by a board fence for a garden.

Wharf containing Coal Dock & Buoy Sheds.

A good road leads to wharf distant from tower 350'.

From Bridgeport 2.5 miles by sailboat or from Black Rock, 1 mile.

2.5 miles to Bridgeport, CT., 1 mile to Black Rock.

Bridgeport, CT., or Black Rock

Black Rock, 1/2 mile.

Fairfield, CT.

Fairfield station on the New York & New Haven RR.

stone tower

Tower built 1808; New lantern 1854; tower raised w/ brick, covered w/ flagging.

In 1854, when new lantern was erected; New dwelling for keeper erected 1879.

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