Digest>Jul/Aug 2021

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Architectural drawing plans for the first cast iron lighthouse to be built in the United States on Long Island in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. Jonathan Lawrence, who was the first lighthouse keeper of Long Island Lighthouse, died at the lighthouse in 1825. (National Archives)
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Story:

America’s First Cast Iron Tower and the Lighthouses of Boston Harbor’s Long Island
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