For more than 150 yrs., the Eastern Point beacon has guidedGloucester fisherman safely home from the seas. The tower and dwelling stand on the east side of the town's harbor on a long, rocky point of land that forms a natural breakwater.
The existing thirty six-foot brick tower, built in 1890, projects a white light mariners can see from up to twenty miles at sea. The flashing signal helps mark dangerous Dog Bar Reef, near the harbor entrance.
(American Lighthouses: A Definitive Guide, Bruce Roberts and Ray Jones, Second Edition)
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