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A bucket, a sponge, and some towels is all the lighthouse keeper needed to clean the windows of the lantern for the first time in 1914 at the newly completed Thimble Shoal Lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay near Hampton, Virginia. If you look closely, you can see the 4th order Fresnel lens in the tower. Automated in 1964, this off-shore lighthouse was sold at auction in 2005 and is now privately owned.
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