Rhode Island Lighthouses
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Next| David Melville's Plan of the Lantern for 1754 Beavertail Lighthouse |
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| Courtesy of the National Archives-Northeast Region (Boston) |
Beavertail Lighthouse's lantern as it appeared in 1817. The glasses in the lantern vary in size, but are mostly 12 inch by 12 inch. There may have been a problem with the first lantern installed on the lighthouse in 1754. In 1761 Peter Harrison, the lighthouse designer, was on the committee that sent Josiah Arnold to Boston to get a model of the lantern of Boston Lighthouse.