Musquash, New Brunswick

Location of Musquash in New Brunswick
Musquash Head Lighthouse
New Brunswick
Location Musquash
New Brunswick
Canada
Coordinates 45°8′37.06″N 66°14′14.03″W / 45.1436278°N 66.2372306°W / 45.1436278; -66.2372306
Year first constructed 1879 (first)
Year first lit 1959 (current)
Automated early 1980s.
Deactivated 1959 (first)
Foundation concrete base
Construction concrete tower (current)
wooden tower (first)
Tower shape octagonal tapered frustum tower with balcony and lantern (current)
square frustum tower rising from keeper’s house (first)
Markings / pattern white tower with a red horizontal band in the upper part, red lantern (current)
white tower with a red horizontal band, red lantern (first)
Height 14.3 metres (47 ft)
Focal height 35 metres (115 ft) (current)
34 metres (112 ft) (first)
Light source solar power
Range 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi)[1]
Characteristic Fl W 3s.
Fog signal 4s. blast every 60s.
Admiralty number H4096
CHS number CCG 97
NGA number 11148
ARLHS number CAN-332
Managing agent Musquash Head Lightstation Inc. [2][3]

Musquash is a Canadian rural community in Saint John County, New Brunswick. It is located 5 km (3.1 mi) west southwest of the community of Prince of Wales in Musquash Parish.

History

Musquash was settled in the early 1800s at the head of navigation on the Musquash River. The Shore Line Railway (later Canadian Pacific Railway was built through the community but has since been abandoned. The community includes the locales of Ivanhoe, West Musquash and Clinch's Mills. A post office was located in Musquash from 1847-1969. It was largely a farming and lumbering community but is now largely an exurb of Saint John, thanks to being located on the Route 1 expressway.

Notable people

See also

References

  1. ↑ List of Lights, Pub. 110: Greenland, The East Coasts of North and South America (Excluding Continental U.S.A. Except the East Coast of Florida) and the West Indies (PDF). List of Lights. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2015.
  2. ↑ Southern New Brunswick The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 25 March 2017
  3. ↑ Musquash Head, NB Lighthouse Friends. Retrieved 25 March 2017

Coordinates: 45°11′35″N 66°19′47″W / 45.19306°N 66.32972°W / 45.19306; -66.32972



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