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EASTERN POINT LIGHTHOUSE
On the east side of the entrance to Gloucester Harbor.
For over 100 years the fishermen of Gloucester have been guided back to
their home port by a lighthouse on Eastern Point.
The present brick tower,
painted a gleaming white, and standing on the long rocky point forming the
eastern side of the harbor, was built in 1890, replacing, on the same
foundation the original tower built in 1832. Before 1832 a still older
lighthouse, on Ten-Pound Island well inside of the harbor, had served as an
entrance light, but this light was never visible until ships had actually
found the entrance, hence the building of a lighthouse on the Eastern Point
where it could be seen from far offshore.
Eastern Point Lighthouse is equipped with a power light and a fog signal.
Coast Guardsmen also control the radiobeacon, located on the end of the
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