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Name: Baker Range Front Light  

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Nearest Town or City:
Port Penn, Delaware, United States

Location: Delaware River, below the C & D Canal.

Managing Organization:
U.S. Coast Guard

Height of Focal Plane: 35

Characteristic and Range: Fixed green.

Description of Tower: Skeletal tower on wooden pilings, offshore from Reedy Island.

This light is operational

Earlier Towers?
1902: Temporary light on post; 1904: Two-story white, wood frame keeper's dwelling, light in second story window; c. 1924: Steel skeletal tower with white slatted daymark.

Date Established: 1902

Date Present Tower Built: 2002

Date Automated: 1924

Optics: 2002: RL-24

Current Use: Active aid to navigation.

Open To Public? No.

Keepers: Willard H. Hall (1904-1906), Harry F. Hann (1906-?)


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