Location: Conanicut Island, Narragansett Bay; Nearest
town: Jamestown, Rhode Island
41 26 58 N
71 23 59 W
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Station established: 1749; Present lighthouse built:
1856; Automated: 1972
Construction material: Granite; Height of tower: 45
feet; Height of focal plane: 64 feet
Other buildings still standing: 1856 keeper's house,
1898 assistant keeper's house, oil house, storage building, garage.
Active U.S. Coast Guard aid to navigation.
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Museum in the keeper's house maintained by:
Accessibility: The lighthouse
is located in Beavertail State Park at the end of Beavertail
Road, at the southern tip of Conanicut Island. There is free
parking. The grounds are open to the public, and there
is a museum
in the assistant keeper's house. The tower is not open to the
public.
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