Oldest Active Lighthouse on the Great Lakes
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a white and red light house sitting on top of a hill next to the ocean
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White Lighthouse With Red Base

1821 (William Kelly). Active; focal plane 67 ft (20.5 m); green flash every 6 s. 65 ft (20 m) round limestone tower (raised 15 ft in 1897); 300 mm lens. Lighthouse painted white; gallery rail and lantern roof are red. The 2-story Victorian wood keeper's house (1880) is a museum operated by the Marblehead Lighthouse Historical Society; 3° Fresnel lens (1904) and rotating mechanism on display. This is the oldest active lighthouse on the U.S. side of the Great Lakes.
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