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Lime Point Light Station
Fog Signal General
Steam boilers & whistles
from 10 to 20 minutes
1883
10 sec blast every 30 sec.
Boilers, engines, pumps & whistles.
60 lbs
34' 4"
On extremity of Lime Point, CA., on N'ly side of entrance to San Francisco Bay
no lighthouse
From springs thru 1 1/4" pipe
Brick bldg 44' x 16' inside. Walls 1' 1.5" thick.
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