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Looking at the charts, and given the lack of coverage elsewhere, I think this article is quite problematic. I have looked at every chart showing Nantucket at a reasonable scale up to 1916, and exactly two of them show anything that could be construed as this range. All of the rest show the two cliff range lights and one or the other Brant Point Lights, but there's no light on the south side of the harbor. Even the charts that do show a beacon at the right spot ( this one from 1848 and this one from 1879) don't show it as part of a range. Charts from 1889 on show a jetty which cuts across any possible range from the old light location.
At this point I'm tempted to combine this with the Nantucket Harbor Range Lights article, but I could use other opinions. LHF doesn't mention any of the harbor ranges, nor does D'Entremont; more surprising is that Rowlett doesn't mention a range based on the Brant Point tower either. Mangoe ( talk) 14:30, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
I've managed to puzzle out enough from Snow's book to ransack the GPO reports and put something together. If anyone can find a copy of Lighthouses of New England' by Malcolm F. Willoughby, there's obviously more material there, but I don't have an opportunity right now to rustle up a copy. The main difficulty was the erroneous name given in the USCG historical page: all official sources call it the Nantucket Beacon. Mangoe ( talk) 17:10, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
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Looking at the charts, and given the lack of coverage elsewhere, I think this article is quite problematic. I have looked at every chart showing Nantucket at a reasonable scale up to 1916, and exactly two of them show anything that could be construed as this range. All of the rest show the two cliff range lights and one or the other Brant Point Lights, but there's no light on the south side of the harbor. Even the charts that do show a beacon at the right spot ( this one from 1848 and this one from 1879) don't show it as part of a range. Charts from 1889 on show a jetty which cuts across any possible range from the old light location.
At this point I'm tempted to combine this with the Nantucket Harbor Range Lights article, but I could use other opinions. LHF doesn't mention any of the harbor ranges, nor does D'Entremont; more surprising is that Rowlett doesn't mention a range based on the Brant Point tower either. Mangoe ( talk) 14:30, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
I've managed to puzzle out enough from Snow's book to ransack the GPO reports and put something together. If anyone can find a copy of Lighthouses of New England' by Malcolm F. Willoughby, there's obviously more material there, but I don't have an opportunity right now to rustle up a copy. The main difficulty was the erroneous name given in the USCG historical page: all official sources call it the Nantucket Beacon. Mangoe ( talk) 17:10, 28 September 2012 (UTC)