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Seul Choix Pointe Light Station

Fog Signal General

10" steam whistle, power furnished by steam boilers & operated automatically by Crosby's Automatics.

1 hour

Miami Valley Boiler Co., Dayton, OH.

1895

4 sec blast & 26 sec silent interval.

Boilers, automatics, whistles & everything excepting steam pump & tank.

Old style Crosby automatics, with 3 guides on cylinder.

whistle, 80 lbs

30'

Coast signal

108', SE from light tower to center of fog-signal.

from Lake Michigan

by walk to dock

Red brick walls, hip roof covered with corrugated iron; 20' x 34' x 10' high to plate line, with 1/2 pitch roof, roof painted red. Interior walls plastered & rafters & collar ties covered with sheet iron.

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