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David Melville's Plan of the 1754 Beavertail Lighthouse
Peter Harrison's 1754 Plan of Beavertail Lighthouse
 Courtesy of the National Archives-Northeast Region (Boston)
This is a plan of the 1754 Breavertail Lighthouse, drawn by David Melville in 1817. Melville had experimented with gas lights. In 1817 he won a contract to light Beavertail Lighthouse with gas for one year.
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