The keeper of the first iron pile lighthouse built in the United States, Isaac Durham, lights its lamp for the first time. It will be swept away in a heavy gale on April 15, 1851, with the loss of two of its keepers. (By John Osborne)
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Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), 353.
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