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Oldest Lighthouse. This is Boston Light, situated on Brewster Island in Boston Harbor, where a tablet was placed Dec. 2, bearing the names of all keepers of the lighthouse which is the oldest in America and the first to have a revolving light.
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Oldest Lighthouse. This is Boston Light, situated on Brewster Island in Boston Harbor, where a tablet was placed Dec. 2, bearing the names of all keepers of the lighthouse which is the oldest in America and the first to have a revolving light.

Associated Press · [ca. December 1934]

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[Information from item housing] Lighthouses: Mass. & New England: Wire Photos

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